A manhunt is underway after a woman who tried to break up an argument was almost pushed in front of a Tube train.
The woman saw her attacker arguing with an elderly man at Leicester Square station on November 6.
The man, wearing a puffer jacket, then turned on her, grabbing her arms and dragging her towards the tracks.
There was a struggle and she managed to escape from him, but he grabbed her again and pushed her as a train arrived at around 3.30pm.
Two witnesses intervened and managed to pull the woman away from the suspect who got onto the train.
A British Transport Police spokesperson said: ‘The suspect is described as a male believed to be in his late twenties with a muscular build, wearing a beige scarf over his head and a short puffer jacket.’
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A man tried to pull a woman into the path of an oncoming tube train at King’s Cross Underground station last year before her friends intervened.
Arthur Hawrylewicz, from Cardiff, was jailed for 10 years for attempted murder.
Detective sergeant Mike Blakeburn said of the incident: ‘Had it not been for their brave actions pulling her from his clutches, we could easily have been dealing with a murder investigation.’
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