A violent fare dodger has escaped a jail term for punching a train conductor despite it being his second conviction for assault, we can reveal. Finley Seggie attacked Peter Corley, 62, when the railway worker asked him to show his ticket.
A violent fare dodger escaped a jail term for punching a train conductor despite it being his second conviction for assault, we can reveal. Finley Seggie attacked Peter Corley , 62, when the railway worker asked him to show his ticket.
Mr Corley was left needing £3,000 worth of dental treatment in the violent assault at West Yorkshire station on December 14, 2024. Seggie, 21, admitted actual bodily harm at Leeds Crown Court but was spared prison after a judge handed him a 16-month suspended sentence. But the thug had already dodged jail for an almost identical attack three years earlier, after a judge agreed he had grown into 'a very different person' since the assault.
The previous attack took place at a Budgens corner shop in Garforth, West Yorkshire, in September 2021, when Seggie punched a customer who had reported him and his friends to staff for anti-social behaviour - leaving him unconscious and needing ten stitches. He claimed self-defence in both attacks - a claim rejected by courts on each occasion - yet walked free without serving a prison sentence either time.
Speaking to the Daily Mail Mr Corley said he felt fortunate to have survived his assault - as another man was attacked in the same way the following day at York station lost his life. Finley Seggie attacked Peter Corley when the railway worker asked him to show his ticket.
It's not the first time Seggie has been convicted of assaulting someone in a public place Mr Corley is seen with blood pouring from his mouth, was forced to leave his job and undergo £3,000 worth of dental treatment following the assault in West Yorkshire in December 2024 The railway worker said he felt fortunate to have survived his assault from a passenger - as another man was attacked in the same way the following day at York station lost his life James Hitchcock, 32, was hit from behind with a single punch by stranger Mckenzie Dicicco, 22, after a night out with friends on December 15, 2024 - and later passed away in hospital.
Mr Hitchcock, an amateur footballer from Cottingham, East Yorkshire, had been just days away from his first Christmas as a father. His wife, April, said his death had left her with 'unexplainable grief': 'I'm now a widow, lost and alone as the love of my life and best friend was so selfishly taken from me.
' Dicicco, from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, pled guilty to manslaughter. He was jailed for six years and eight months in July last year. Mr Corley said: 'He went down extremely hard, hit his head on the platform surface and died the following day. A lot of that played on my mind.
It was the kind of punch that if I'd have been more frail…' The grandfather from York worked as a Lance Corporal in the army in the 1980s before becoming a custody inspector for West Yorkshire Police, which he retired from in 2015. But wanting a part-time job to keep him busy, he started working for Northern Trains in 2018 - with his voice even being used for automated station and safety announcements.
He was conducting a Sunday teatime train on the roughly 25-minute journey from Leeds to York when he asked Seggie and his friend, who was known to rail staff as a repeated fare dodger, for their tickets. The friend was effing and blinding, 'No, I haven't got a ticket and don't f***ing ask me again,' he said, with Seggie soon joining in.
He leapt up and did what I termed a bit of a false flag thing, 'Boy, give me some space, your breath stinks, you're a fat c***', all that sort of stuff. So really quite abusive and embarrassing really. Mr Corley asked the pair to get off at the next station and alerted the driver, before escorting a 'very frightened' elderly woman sitting nearby, who wanted the next stop, safely to the doors.
As the train pulled in, he spotted the friend run off, he said, leaving him thinking he was in the clear: I look up and the other boy is coming straight towards me, very briskly, with a crooked and evil-looking smile. He knew exactly what he was going to do and he got me. I felt a bit ashamed really because as a policeman, you're trained to keep a reactionary gap - but there was just nowhere to go.
In any event, he got a very professional, accurate, powerful single punch onto my mouth, thrown from his waist. If I'd seen that thrown in a boxing ring, I would have clapped. He continued: I had a surreal moment of watching my own tooth leave my mouth. It flew across the carriage.
It was quite dramatic. Seggie fled the scene, leaving Mr Corley with 'a mouth full of blood', he said, as passengers rushed to assist and called the police. Despite his injuries, he conducted the train for the rest of the journey, explaining: That line between Leeds and York is pretty critical and there were at least six express trains behind us.
He was met by the British Transport Police on the other end, where he got in a taxi to York Royal Infirmary
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Violent fare dodger who escaped jail term for punching train conductor has history of assaulting people in publicA violent fare dodger who escaped a jail term for punching a train conductor has been revealed to have a history of assaulting people in public. Finley Seggie, 21, attacked Peter Corley, 62, when the railway worker asked him to show his ticket. Mr Corley was left needing £3,000 worth of dental treatment in the violent assault at West Yorkshire station on December 14, 2024. Seggie had already dodged jail for an almost identical attack three years earlier, after a judge agreed he had grown into 'a very different person' since the assault. The previous attack took place at a Budgens corner shop in Garforth, West Yorkshire, in September 2021, when Seggie punched a customer who had reported him and his friends to staff for anti-social behaviour - leaving him unconscious and needing ten stitches. He claimed self-defence in both attacks - a claim rejected by courts on each occasion - yet walked free without serving a prison sentence either time.
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