A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a person was hit by a Tube train on Thursday (November 2).

The incident happened at just after 5pm at Bayswater Underground Station on the Circle and District line.

Police say a man in his 50s was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

British Transport Police has charged Alan Alencar of Northcote Street, Edinburgh, with attempted murder.

Alencar will appear before Westminster Magistrates court on Saturday (November 4).

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