[DDRickyDD]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...se-police.html

When a gang of drunken football yobs began hurling foul abuse at a mother and her five-year-old son on a train, she presumed someone would intervene.

But the driver refused to call the police or stop the train and the guard was nowhere to be seen.

Faced with giving in or standing up to the 30-strong group, Lisa Robinson decided to take them

When the train reached her station she got off and stood in front of it, refusing to move until the driver called police.

Rail company Arriva then terminated the train there, leaving the abusive fans to make their own way home.

Yesterday Mrs Robinson said: ‘It was a terrifying experience, but I’m glad I did it. It was a victory for ordinary people.’

The 41-year-old mother had been on a day out with her husband Peter, 61, and their son Harry to celebrate his fifth birthday.

The couple, civil servants from Ystrad Mynach near Caerphilly in South Wales, had taken Harry to Cardiff before returning home on the Arriva service.
As they boarded the two-carriage train on Saturday September 25, they realised it was full of drunken Cardiff City fans who had just seen their team beat Millwall.

The family tried to ignore the shouting and swearing hooligans, but when the train arrived at a station and the gang began abusing a woman on the platform, Mrs Robinson decided to intervene

I walked down to the group and asked the main perpetrator to stop swearing,’ she said.

‘They then turned their abuse on me, calling me a ‘‘dyke’’ and a string of four-letter words.

‘Nobody said anything. I was terrified. I wanted to alert the guard, but there was no way into the next carriage so we were completely trapped.

‘Then they swore at my husband, who was sitting with Harry, and taunted him about his age. By the time the train set off again I was crying and shaking

She was so frightened she pulled the emergency handle at the next station.

But she said that when the driver got into the carriage, he simply reset the alarm and went back to drive the train, ignoring her husband’s request to call the police.

Mrs Robinson added: ‘The train carried on for another two stops, with the abuse continuing, until it arrived at our station, Ystrad Mynach. When I got off I had Harry in my arms and he was crying. The driver completely ignored us and told us to take it up with the guard. We had not seen one for the entire journey – I think he had been too frightened to intervene.

‘It was then I decided to take direct action. I spoke to the driver who again ignored me – he wouldn’t even take his sunglasses off to talk to me.

‘So I handed Harry to Peter, got on to the tracks and stopped the train from leaving the station. Some of the football yobs got off to give me more abuse and take pictures of me on their mobiles.’

She said the guard then appeared and asked her to move, which she refused to do.

She eventually moved after the station controller promised her he would not move the train and that the police would be called.

Two British Transport Police officers arrived and, after discussions with railway officials, the train was terminated.

Mrs Robinson said yesterday that she was glad she had made a stand and would do it again.

‘I think too often these yobs are allowed to get away with it,’ she added. ‘When the thugs started kicking off, one woman said to me that I should accept it as it was just the world we live in. But I refuse to live in a society where this sort of thing goes unpunished.

‘Arriva sent me flowers and apologies, but what they really need to do is plan to make sure these things don’t happen. They knew there was a football game on and should have laid on extra staff. Instead, they had one guard who I’m convinced was hiding in the other carriage.

‘I still can’t believe the driver ignored my husband when he asked him to phone the police.’

Peter Northcott, head of stations at Arriva Trains Wales, said: ‘We take all complaints very seriously and I personally contacted Mr and Mrs Robinson on the day of this incident. A full investigation is taking place with the British Transport Police.’

A spokesman for British Transport Police said: ‘Inquiries, including viewing CCTV and speaking to witnesses who were on the train, which was travelling between Penarth and Bargoed, are ongoing.'


Bloody awfull, just awful.

[Locke.]

Read half of it and got bored...

She is an idiot for going over to them and asking them to stop swearing anyway, but even so they shouldn't have started kicking off over it. But she's still stupid for doing what she did.

[30stone]

Typical druknen fans, whats the need to be abuse to women ?? like in a big group too, its pathetic, most people grow out of that by age 17.

Typical cardiff hooligans though. No offence to Chels though.
But last 2 times they come to the Madejski they caused trouble outside and in the surrounding area.. They ended up all having to be walked to the train station by police..

[Niamh.]

fair dues to her, this kind of thing needs to be taken seriously because nothing is ever done about it and it's just getting worse and worse cos these scumbags know that they can get away with it.

[Wagner]

Welsh scum

[Iceman]

Scumbags, no need for it.

[Iceman]

What the hell at the amount of views? I reckon the fans are coming for the forum.

[MissKittyFantastico]

No need for that at all.

Fair enough have banter with other fans and that but you don't go hurling abuse at random people.

[30stone]

Its because you type in half the title in google and this forum comes up lol..

[BB_Eye]

What a noble thing to do. If only everybody had the balls to stand up to chav vermin on trains, the bane of many people's existence.

[James]

Originally Posted by Iceman

What the hell at the amount of views? I reckon the fans are coming for the forum.

It's because this page has been linked here - http://twitter.com/toptweets/favorites

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by James

It's because this page has been linked here - http://twitter.com/toptweets/favorites

Oh I was wondering.....i thought the Emily Parr thread may have been in trouble there for a second.

[Chels]

My cousin was on this train, his account of what happened here - http://www.ccmb.co.uk/fudforum/index...in#msg_2156846

He has no reason to lie, the stupid bitch should be fined for standing on a bloody traintrack anyway. Find it hilarious she asks them to stop swearing while she called them ***** lmfao, and she had the wrong lads.

[Chels]

Originally Posted by 30stone

Typical druknen fans, whats the need to be abuse to women ?? like in a big group too, its pathetic, most people grow out of that by age 17.

Typical cardiff hooligans though. No offence to Chels though.
But last 2 times they come to the Madejski they caused trouble outside and in the surrounding area.. They ended up all having to be walked to the train station by police..

Typical? Jesus christ...


Ever heard of a 'minority?'

[Marc]

To be fair, the welsh are evil. LOLZ

[KG.]

Disgraceful people.

[Chels]

Before you judge, you need to look at the two sides of the story the woman's a nutter.

[KG.]

I've looked at both sides; disgraceful people.

[Chels]

LOL k. She kicked off over nothing basically, they wasn't even abusing anyone, plus she's hypocritical. Then she runs off to the media whinghing for attention, silly twisting cow.

[bbfan1991]

Originally Posted by Chels

Typical? Jesus christ...


Ever heard of a 'minority?'

I agree, like it's unfair to say that ALL Millwall fans are football hooligans are out to cause trouble because there is the decent fans out there who are passionate about their team and they are the real fans unlike those who brawl and give their team a bad reputation.

[alc09]

No surprise that it's Cardiff fans involved.

[Chels]

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/vi...08cb2fac5c08a2

****ing told you all! Lying little twit. They saw it all on cctv hahahaaaaa!!

[bbfan1991]

Chels is one happy Bluebird.

However football is full of hypocrisy because people can criticise a club and their fans if there is hooliganism etc going on.. but when it's the fans of the team that you support then of course you criticise those that have shamed the club, but then you defend your team against the criticism that they will get from certain quarters.

[30stone]

Originally Posted by Chels

Typical? Jesus christ...


Ever heard of a 'minority?'

There was near on 200 cardiff fans rioting at the madejski that time..
Yes its a minority but typical because ive seen it before..