A drug addict who pushed a former Eurotunnel boss onto Tube tracks has been jailed for life with a minimum of 12 years.

Paul Crossley, 47, shoved Sir Robert Malpas, 91, into the path of a train at London's Marble Arch station on April 27 last year.

Shortly before the "terrifying" attack, Crossley had tried to shove Tobias French, 23, onto the tracks at Tottenham Court Road station.

The defendant, a crack cocaine user who has paranoid schizophrenia, claimed he was guided to the area by the Pet Shop Boys song "West End Girls".

He was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder at the Old Bailey last year.

Jailing Crossley yesterday, Judge Nicholas Hilliard, QC, said the pop song he had referred to "simply put the idea of going to a place in your head, as can happen to any of us".