AN ESTATE agent has described his desperate attempts to seek help for a man who went under the wheels of a train at Redbridge Station.
Nadeem Rahman, 38, of Falmouth Gardens, Redbridge, watched in horror as 41-year-old Courtney Marshall, from Walthamstow, appeared to dive onto the tracks.
Mr Rahman, who works in Ilford Lane, said: “There was one other person there, a young girl. I went to check when the train was coming, and it was about a minute away.
“I was going back to the middle of the platform when I saw this guy.
“He was just walking around, like he was waiting for the train. I didn't think anything of it.”
Mr Rahman then described how the man seemed to be moving closer and closer to the edge of the platform.
He said: “I was thinking, 'it's a bit close – what's he doing?' It just didn't register in my mind. Then I realised what was going to happen. He fell flat, face down with his arms stretched out, about ten seconds before the train came.”
Mr Marshall was treated by paramedics but died at the scene at about 1pm on Sunday, September 13.
Mr Rahman said he has been unable to erase the image from his mind and that he just wants to forget.
“When I did realise what happened, I just turned away and ran upstairs. There were other passengers coming down on to the platform,” he said.
“I wanted to warn them but they couldn't understand what I was saying.”
He then tried to alert Underground staff and described desperately knocking on the window at the ticket office, trying to make himself understood.
“I ran into the office and there were two gentlemen who work there. They didn't realise what I was telling them,” he said.
“Then they just dropped everything and ran down the stairs. The girl on the platform was still there, completely in shock, just crying. She couldn't contain herself.
“The driver came out of his cabin and he was in shock as well.”
An inquest into the death of Mr Marshall has been opened and adjourned.”
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