Staffordshire vandals jailed for eight years

摘要

Two vandals, who admitted deliberately placing objects on the railway line at Dosthill, south of Tamworth, and almost causing a Class 170 'Turbostar' travelling at 95mph to derail, have been jailed for a total of eight-and-a-half years.rnRichard Hamilton, 21, and Ashley Leedham, 18, both from Kingsbury, Tamworth, pleaded guilty to malicious obstruction of the railway with intent to endanger safety when they appeared at Warwick Crown Court.rnThe pair had erected a four-foot high pile of concrete blocks, wooden pallets, bags of cement and other debris, which was struck by No. 170108, working the 23.08 Birmingham New street to Nottingham service with 50 passengers on board.