A train station guard who was punched in the face by a passenger was left in so much agony that she struggled to change her daughter's nappy.

Christina Gledhill, 32, was struck in the face by Darren Corr at Piccadilly Station in July this year after she asked him to show his ticket.

A court heard he then lifted his daughter over the barrier at platform 5, hitting her head in the process.

The 37-year-old, of Cheadle Hulme, shouted 'What have you f****** done?’ to his victim, before punching her with a clenched fist.

Corr avoided jail after pleading guilty to assault at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

He was ordered to carry out 200 hours community service for the unprovoked attack.

But just days after the sentencing, the dad-of-two was caught laying into critics on social media.

Christina, who commutes from Liverpool, thinks the sentence isn't long enough, and wasn't impressed by his social media outburst.

The Virgin Trains worker said the station guards are regularly threatened and abused - and the right messages need to come from the courts.

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News on Friday, the mum-of-one said: "A community service doesn't deter anyone. People need to realise the abuse we get. It's not harsh enough."

Recalling the attack, on July 19, she said: "I was working at the barrier at 11am. He came off with his child and approached me and said 'can you let me through? I said 'I need to see some receipt of purchase'. He hit (his daughter's head) on the roof of the barrier. He said 'Look what you have f****** done ' and punched me in the face. He knocked my glasses off.

"I was literally in total shock. I couldn't even react.

"There was no argument. The poor women behind him were shaking like mad. I just couldn't believe it.

"I had to go to A&E. The bruise on my face was just so big. The pain was horrendous, it was just excrutiating. I have a two-year-old daughter.

"My mum had to help me dress her. I couldn't change her nappy. I couldn't move or laugh. It's still randomly painful."

Christina had to take 11 days off work to let the bruise heal.

But she went back to work as she didn't want to 'sit at home going over it.'

She's now more anxious than she was before, especially when people are confrontational.

"I'm fine until I'm approached in a difficult situation. Last week I was helping someone and a lad jumped over the barrier.

"I said 'what are you doing?'" He said 'f**k off'. That frightened me. You deal with (aggressive passengers) all the time. I'm a lot more anxious in confrontational situations. I never was. I think 'someone else is going to do that'."

In the last week there have been several incidents at the station, she said.

"A girl kicked one of the fellas in the nuts. Someone was racially abused, and one of the girls was threatened with a knife.

"People need to realise the abuse we get. It's bad. It's people not taking responsibility for their own tickets. Their reaction is to take it out on us, it's not our fault."

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Following the sentencing, Corr left angry messages on social media when people criticised.

In one of the comments, he said "Looks like all the sad c**** are coming out of the woodwork'.

"It shows the man he is. I had shared one of the Facebook appeals to find him and I woke up this morning he had liked one of them. You just think 'seriously? What are you playing at'. I have done nothing to you other than to work", Christina added.