Alain Lesjongard pushed under a train but survived by rolling himself into a ball

British Transport Police arrest Alan Alencar at Bayswater Station

The man who admitted to pushing a 55-year-old finance worker from Putney under a tube train has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Alan Alencar

29 year old Alan Alencar, of Northcote Street in Edinburgh, was at Bayswater underground station at around 5pm on Thursday 2 November last year.


Alain Lesjongard

CCTV showed him sitting on a bench and watching Alain Lesjongard approach an oncoming District Line train to board. Alencar approached the man and, without warning, pushed him with both hands onto the track.

The train ran over the spot where Mr Lesjongard was lying but he survived with injuries to his ankle which required surgery, and a number of other injuries. The Old Bailey heard that train driver, who has since endured flashbacks and nightmares, has not felt able to return to work.

Alencar was arrested a short while later in the entrance hall to the station. He was charged on 3 November and pleaded guilty to attempted murder at the Old Bailey. On Monday (12 March) at the Old Bailey the judge handed Alencar a hospital order under the Mental Health Act.

Sentencing Alencar, Judge Sarah Munro QC said it was "miraculous that Mr Lesjongard was neither electrocuted nor killed".


March 16, 2018