A homeless man who tried to murder a postman by pushing him onto the tube tracks is a migrant convicted of sex crimes who was already facing deportation.
Kurdish migrant Brwa Shorsh, 24, shoved stranger Tadeusz Potoczek, 61, at Oxford Circus in central London on February 3.
Although he denied trying to kill him, Shorsh admitted he did it for ‘revenge’ thinking the postman gave him a ‘dirty look’ and was found guilty of attempted murder.
Shorsh accumulated convictions of assault and indecent acts since coming to the UK in 2019.
According to The Sun, the Home Office tried to deport him but he lodged an appeal with the immigration tribunal - which was ongoing at the time of the attack.
A source told the newspaper his appeal was ongoing when he pushed Mr Potoczek on the tracks and added: ‘It makes you wonder what exactly you have to do to be deported from the UK.’
Shorsh had 12 convictions for 21 offences including assault, anti-social behaviour and outraging public decency. The Home Office declined to comment to The Sun.
Video footage shows Mr Potoczek, a postman who was on his way home from work, walking along the platform when Shorsh lurched up from a bench and shoved him.
The postman narrowly missed touching the live rail on the southbound Victoria Line and he was helped back up to the platform by a kind passenger.
But the driver of an oncoming train told Inner London Crown Court in July: ‘If he had been on the track a few seconds later, he would have been killed.’
Mr Potoczek was hurrying home to catch a flight and was looking at arrivals board when he was attacked.
The driver had put on the emergency brake and his train was just four seconds away from hitting the victim.