A thug has admitted assaulting a Translink conductor after he was put off the train for vaping.
As Stephen Weldon stood in the dock of Antrim Crown Court, defence counsel Neil Moore asked for him to be rearraigned on the last remaining charge and the 35-year-old admitted attempting to inflict GBH with intent.
Champion bare-knuckle boxer Weldon, from Inniscarn Drive in Rathcoole, had already entered guilty pleas to two charges of damaging the victim’s mobile phone as well as a cash bag and mobile phone belonging to Translink, arising from the same incident on May 8 this year.
Previous courts were told that Weldon was on the train to Larne when the conductor spotted him vaping and told him he would have to disembark when it pulled into the Magheramorne halt.
Weldon asked how he could get to work and was told there might be a bus service.
The two men “fist-bumped” and the train continued on its journey.
While the train was at Larne station, the conductor noticed there was a charger for a vaping device, so when the train returned to the Magheramorne halt, he went to hand it back to Weldon but was attacked.
An officer said Weldon kicked the man, causing him to fall into the doors behind him, before he “dragged him off the train and assaulted him on the platform”.
When the PSNI arrived, Weldon was arrested. However, during police enquiries “it transpired that the defendant had done a livestream”, capturing part of the assault.
The officer described how the video captures Weldon stamping on the alleged victim’s personal phone, work phone and money bag. Weldon was also heard commenting that the conductor “was talking tough and got his ass whooped”.
The court was told the conductor sustained a fractured jaw, five chipped teeth and bruising and abrasions.
Judge Alistair Devlin remanded Weldon back into custody, with sentencing set for February 10.
by heresmewhaa
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Look at him… Can we not just drop him 50 miles out in the ocean?
Absolutely disgusting read that
We need some chlorine in the gene pool….
I hope they throw the book at the emotionally stunted knucklehead.
No doubt a silly light sentence will give , and given time spent on remand will end up released back into society within a matter of weeks
What a well-adjusted member of society
Poor guy’s is obviously just misunderstood
I remember seeing this video and reading this story earlier in the year. Just terrible and cringe. Nasty wee asshole on a roid rage. If it wasn’t the conductor he exploded on it would have just been someone else. Small men like this are always primed to go off and are just dying for an opportunity to play the hard man and burnish their fragile egos.
Hopefully the judge makes an example of him. Let him play the big man up in Maghaberry where the wheat can be separated from the chaff.
Did he give himself this champion title?
From what I remember, he was also caught and charged with fraud a while back, too. He pretended he was sick to get got DLA/PIPs, he ended up receiving 30K before he was caught. He’s fucking scum.
We all know or knew someone like that in our lives, and we fucking hated them.
I saw the whole thing. I was at the station waiting for the 3:15 to come in, sitting on one of those old wooden benches near the platform. Stephen was there too, leaning against a post, probably waiting for one of his deliveries. You know how he’s always got some big project on the go—tables, chairs, rocking horses. Anyway, there was this little kid running around, maybe six or seven, chasing after one of those paper airplanes. His mother was distracted, digging through her bag, and the boy got too close to the edge.
The train’s horn blared, and everything happened so fast. Stephen didn’t even think about it; he just moved. He grabbed the kid by the back of his coat and yanked him back so hard they both fell onto the platform. The boy was crying, the mother was screaming, and in all the chaos, the conductor came storming out of the train, red-faced and shouting.
I don’t think the guy had seen what happened. All he saw was Stephen crouched on the ground with the kid, and he assumed the worst. Started yelling about how dangerous it was to “manhandle” a child and shoved Stephen in the chest. Stephen stood up—he’s a tall guy, you know, but not the type to intimidate anyone—and tried to explain.
But the conductor wasn’t having it. He kept yelling, jabbing a finger in Stephen’s face. Then, when Stephen stepped back to avoid the jabs, the conductor tripped over the boy’s paper airplane and went down hard on his backside. That’s when the rumors must’ve started. A few people saw the conductor sprawled out and Stephen standing there, and they jumped to conclusions.
Stephen didn’t stick around to argue. He helped the kid to his feet, checked to make sure he was okay, and left quietly, like he always does.
I don’t know why he hasn’t tried to clear his name, but then again, that’s Stephen for you. He’s not one to care much about what people think, so long as he knows he did the right thing. And he did. Just like he always has, ever since we were kids.
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