Police Go After ‘Heroes’ Who Kicked Man Flashing Children Off Tube
4th October 2025
Three “hero” Tube passengers who tackled a man exposing himself in front of children have been interviewed under caution by police.
‘Under caution’ means they’ve been read their rights, similar to being Mirandized in the U.S., and indicating that they are under formal criminal investigation.
Five members of the public removed the naked man from a busy carriage on the District Line in August.
Video footage posted online at the time showed the man repeatedly refusing to pull up his trousers as he shouted and told those trying to intervene to “f— off”. A scuffle then broke out as the individual was tackled to the carriage floor and thrown off the train at East Ham station, where he was eventually arrested on the platform.
However, when he was later detained under the Mental Health Act, the British Transport Police (BTP) began an investigation into his “assault by a number of other passengers”.
No good deed goes unpunished, especially in modern Britain.