Two alleged phone muggers, accused of chasing their terrified victim into the path of a 100mph express train, conspired in the back of a police van to concoct a convincing story, a jury has been told.
Dominic Morris, 19,of Leavesden Road, Watford and a 16 year-old Harrow youth have pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of apprentice electrician Lewis Ghessen, 22, at Harrow & Wealdstone station on September 25, last year.
They also deny, at Isleworth Crown Court, to attempting to rob the Paddington man of an iPhone and Blackberry.
First the jury were given more details of Mr. Ghessen's (pictured) desperate final 999 call as he dashed along the platform and jumped onto the live tracks.
"I'm getting chased, I'm getting chased," he told the operator. "I'm being chased down the railway tracks. I'm at Harrow and Wealdstone, I'm fucked, I think they will fuck me up.
"I'm being chased by fucking mad guys. I don't want to lose my fucking life. I'm walking on the tracks so I don't get robbed.
"I told them on the bus I support Tottenham and they told me they supported Arsenal and said: 'We're going to fuck you up.'
"My God, there's a train coming. Oh my God, oh my God.
"I nearly got hit by a train, my mother's life.
"I don't want to get robbed, this is dangerous. They don't dare come on the tracks. I can hear them coming after me."
Mr. Ghessen was then fatally struck as he called a friend by a Virgin express train travelling from Euston to Preston, Lancashire.
Both defendants were identified on CCTV and arrested at their respective homes on October 11, with the youth asking police: "What evidence have you got on me?"
They refused to answer questions during interviews, but were recorded in the rear of a police van.
"They made a number of significant comments," said Prosecutor Mr. Julian Evans. "The prosecution say, in effect, they were talking about presenting an account denying they even went into the railway station.
"There were discussions about the man being drunk and that they heard him say he was going to commit suicide.
One recorded comment was: "We want to make sure the story is one hundred per cent perfect."
Trial continues………