Five young men have been locked up after a railway conductor and passengers were targeted in “dreadful” drunken late-night violence on Shipley Railway Station.

Two men waiting to board a train were injured when they were set upon in a group attack shortly before 11.30pm on June 28 last year, Bradford Crown Court heard.

The incident began with bottles of water being thrown over two girls on the platform and members of the group attempting to grapple a rail user’s bicycle from him, prosecutor Denise FitzPatrick said today.

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The conductor was taunted and his glasses fell between the train and the platform edge. When he shut the doors, the group tried to force their way on to the train and banged on the windows and kicked the doors.

The violence, that was caught on CCTV, then escalated, with two men on the platform being attacked.

One curled up with his hands round his head as he was kicked and the second was punched and pushed into the stationary train, falling on the edge of the platform.

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The defendants, all from Bradford, were sent to custody by the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, who said the court would not tolerate this sort of behaviour at one of the area’s principal stations.

“There would be outrage amongst the wider public who have to put up with this sort of behaviour if the court did not send out a clear message,” the judge said.

Michael Murgatroyd, 18, of Newlands Avenue, Fagley; Joel Surbuts, 19, of Peveril Mount, Eccleshill; Jordan Tingle, 19, of Scholars Walk, Eccleshill, and Jack Stables, 18, of Greenwood Avenue, Swain House, Bradford, all pleaded guilty to affray.

Declan Aldridge, 21, of Fagley Terrace, Fagley, admitted the lesser offence of threatening behaviour.

Miss FitzPatrick said that all five had consumed a large amount of alcohol.

They impeded a couple walking over a footbridge at the station then came down on to the platform when a train pulled in.

Aldridge made fun of the conductor and threatened: “I’ll get your glasses.”

The conductor dislodged his own spectacles in the incident and they were lost on the tracks.

Tingle and Surbuts grabbed a cyclist’s bike but he held on to it and boarded the train.

Aldridge put his leg in the gap between the doors as the conductor closed them, trapping two men on the platform with the drunken group.

Miss FitzPatrick told the court that Aldridge took no further part in the incident.

After the two men were set upon, Tingle and Surbuts used a bank card stolen from one of them to buy cigarettes and soft drinks.

CCTV images of the violence were circulated, and the defendants were arrested.

One of the victims suffered concussion and had to take a week off work. The other was left with severe bruising and a grazed forehead.

The conductor was unhurt but lost his glasses worth £185.

The defendants made no comment in their police interviews, although Surbuts identified himself on the CCTV footage and said he was acting in self-defence.

James Bourne-Arton, Murgatroyd’s barrister, said he was 17 at the time with no previous convictions and he had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

Kristina Goodwin, for Stables, said he was then 17 and had since done “some serious growing up.” He hoped to join the Army and he no longer drank or associated with his co-defendants.

Shufqat Khan, for Aldridge, said he was involved in the earlier part of the incident only. Alcohol had clouded his judgement and he did not assault anyone.

Abigail Langford said Tingle was 17 at the time. He had no convictions before the incident and had not offended since.

Surbuts’ barrister, Jayne Beckett, said he was a mild-mannered man who got blind drunk that night. It was “unbelievably out of character” and he had since moderated his drinking.

Judge Durham Hall said that Aldridge was at the forefront when the incident began, then the other four defendants had carried out a “gratuitous, sustained and serious assault on members of the public trying to board a train.”

One of the group had tried to grab the conductor’s key to open and close the train doors and they had attempted to push their way on to the train.

Tingle and Surbuts then used a bank card belonging to one of their victims.

“There was no remorse, no compassion, no understanding at all of the enormity of your actions,” Judge Durham Hall said.

Murgatroyd and Stables were each sent to a young offender institution for eight months; Aldridge was jailed for four and a half months; Surbuts and Tingle were each sent to a young offender institution for nine months. Tingle was sentenced to 12 months to run consecutively for an unrelated house burglary and aggravated vehicle taking in April last year, making a total of 21 months.