Drunk man made threat to jump on to Carlisle rail track

Last updated 11:29, Friday, 10 October 2008

A drunken man threatened to jump onto the tracks at Carlisle railway station.

Philip Longstaff then helped himself to sandwiches from the buffet there and began eating them.

The 37-year-old had only been released from police custody a few hours before the incident last Friday afternoon.

Longstaff, from Newcastle, was jailed for 14 days by Carlisle magistrates yesterday afternoon.

He admitted theft and being drunk and disorderly and, through his solicitor Patrick Shimmin, apologised to staff at the station.

Prosecutor Peter Bayly said a supervisor entered the buffet at about 4.15pm to be confronted by Longstaff, who said: “Get this man out of my face or I’m going to jump on the track.”

There wasn’t a man close to him.

The supervisor went to alert other workers but returned to find Longstaff had helped him self to food from the buffet fridge.

Police were called and Longstaff was arrested after he had abused officers.

Mr Bayly said Longstaff had been released by police in Lancashire at 10am that morning after an earlier arrest for being drunk and disorderly.

Mr Shimmin, defending, said his client had a drink problem and could remember nothing about the events at the station.

He had been celebrating too vigorously the end of a work contract.

Longstaff, who had only 41p on him at the time of his arrest, has been in custody ever since.

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