A FRUSTRATED would-be rail traveller annoyed after he missed a replacement bus angrily told staff: “I’m a Thai fighter and I’ll kill you all.” 

Karl Dean Mallinson, 29, made the threat after he arrived at the rail station on July 19 last year, hoping to travel to Penrith and finding out that the train he needed had been cancelled, Carlisle's Rickergate court heard.

The defendant, of Millholme Avenue, Carlisle, pleaded guilty to three offences of using threatening behaviour towards the railway station staff. Prosecutor Peter Bardsley outlined what happened.

He said one of the station’s safeguarding officers was made aware that there was an unknown male "acting up" near to a cordoned off part of the platform; he was trying to get access to the gent’s toilet.

He was then seen walking into the female toilet as he explained to the workers there that he was desperate to spend a penny.

After being allowed to do that, staff explained to the man – later identified as the defendant – that there was no train to Penrith.

“But they said there was the option of walking up to Botchergate and catching the [replacement] bus,” said Mr Bardsley. Staff also directed Mallinson to the area where he would be able to catch the bus.

“But he in fact missed the bus,” said the prosecutor.

The defendant then returned to the railway station and became verbally aggressive towards the staff there, threatening to kill them. Staff asked him to step away from them but he continued swearing.

It was at this point that he said he was a Thai fighter, threatening to kill the staff or elbow one of them in the jaw.

Even after the staff explained that it was not their fault that the train he wanted to catch was cancelled, he continued swearing.

Steven Marsh, defending, said the defendant had suffered from depression for more than ten years. He had been to Carlisle to see his mother and after that visit he had been drinking.

“He can’t recall the incident,” said the lawyer.

“He said he doesn’t drink very often. There had been some news on that particular day which made him upset he had been drinking.” Mr Marsh said what happened had been out of character and whilst there had been unpleasant threats made by the defendant there was no actual violence.

After hearing those details, magistrates said they would adjourn sentencing the defendant so that the Probation Service can prepare a background report. They said the service may be able to help him to get back on his feet.

Mallinson will be sentenced on February 14.