Lynn teen jailed for rail offence
A LYNN teenager has been jailed after throwing a road barrier onto the railway track at the town's Hardwick Road.
Brian Forrest (18) denied endangering the safety of the railway line on September 3 last year, but a jury at Norwich Crown Court found him guilty at an earlier hearing and he appeared for sentence on Friday.
Recorder Guy Ayres told him that rail users must be protected and sentenced Forrest to four months in custody.
"When you threw it you had no idea where it would land. It was a potential hazard and people using the railway need to be protected.
Young men think it is funny and amusing to throw items like this on to the rail track, but it is not funny or amusing. Behaviour of this kind is stupid," he said.
The barrier did not land on the track and Mr Michael Procter, in mitigation, said Forrest had a difficult background and was living in a hostel at the time of the offence.
"It was a serious offence and he accepts it could have had serious consequences," he said.
He added it was a single-track line and the barrier had landed away from the track.
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