A man has been jailed after launching an unprovoked verbal attack on passengers on a Beckenham bus.

Ricky Appiah, from Southwark, pleaded guilty to using threatening words or violence at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and was sentenced to eight weeks in prison.

Police were called on April 18, last year after the 27-year-old launched himself at two passengers on the Route 227 bus in Blandford Road.

When officers arrived, Appiah had fled.

CCTV from the bus was used to identify Appiah and other witnesses to the incident, who were contacted by police.

He was later arrested at Bromley South train station.

Inspector Jas Sandhu of the Bromley Safer Transport Team said: "We are in the business of safeguarding the travelling public and transport staff.

“We will use all tools available to us to bring perpetrators of crimes on the transport network to justice and maintain a safe, low crime transport network for our transport community."

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