Hundreds of thousands of commuters experienced major disruption during rush hour on Monday morning after passengers evacuated themselves from a train in London and spilled onto the track because they feared a fellow passenger was acting erratically. The incident, which took place at about 8.30am just outside Wimbledon station on a South Western Railway train running from Shepperton to Waterloo, forced Network Rail to switch off power in the area, causing long delays. Ian O’Sullivan, 42,
who was in the same carriage as the passenger, said a man with a rucksack began reading what appeared to be extracted from the Old Testament when the train stopped at a red light outside the south-west London rail station. “He was quite well spoken and calm,” he said. “He said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to talk to you about something and that something is the word of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He’s here to heal your sins. The Bible tells you that homosexuality is a sin and sex before marriage is a sin. You need to repent’.” READ MORE
