#SPRAY PAINNT PERSON ON TRAIN TRACKS DRIVER#

He was incredibly popular, the type of person who made friends wherever he went.' 'He is just a character that you would never meet again. That's what Ozone's done.'Ī close friend of Edgar (Wants), himself a former writer who didn't want to be named, described him as a charismatic and ebullient friend. Graffiti is an underground society, a group of people that go out and make their names around and earn respect from other people that do it. Anywhere you go, a lot of places, you'll see Ozone. 'There was kind of a group of us, one of our mates went to prison for about eight months, and it all kind of started falling apart, Bradley just started doing it on his own. Chapman (Ozone) in particular was becoming well known on the graffiti scene, not so much for the inventiveness of his tags but because he was so prolific.ĭVone, a close friend of Chapman's who went out tagging with him often, says his friend had recently become really active, following the breakdown of a relationship. London Underground has a policy of not allowing carriages that have been vandalised to run until they have been cleaned new graffiti-resistant paints applied to trains mean that most tags can be easily removed with no more than a high-powered jet of water.īut to Elgar and Chapman, graffiti was much more than a hobby. What drives a young man, much loved by his family and friends, with plans for his future and, in Elgar's case, a five-month-old son, to risk everything to spray a few looping letters on a train? It is not as if his handiwork will be seen by thousands. Two other men, aged 24 and 25, have been charged in connection with the incident - one was arrested close to the scene, the other the next day. We will never forget you, soldiers.' Despite Keith Elgar's request that no one else put themselves at risk, sprayed tributes to the pair have begun to appear across London. 'King Ozone, Wants, Rest in peace,' read one.

To their fellow graffiti writers (the term is preferred to 'artists'), Chapman and Elgar were better known, respectively, as Ozone and Wants, the 'tags' the two men wrote over trains, walls and buildings in Essex and London. On message boards and websites, members of the graffiti community expressed their own shock and dismay. 'īut the young men's bewildered families were not the only ones mourning this week. We have got a memory now of Dan just on a dark grimy railway track. Keith Elgar, Daniel's father, described his son's death as 'just a pointless waste of life. Both men died at the scene from massive multiple injuries.

#SPRAY PAINNT PERSON ON TRAIN TRACKS DRIVER#

The driver reported feeling a 'tremendous jolt' and immediately brought the train to a halt. According to the British Transport police (BTP), security guards spotted them and shouted, at which point the two men dashed out across the tracks, only to be struck by a westbound District line train. They had apparently scaled the 3m-high palisade security fencing, and were planning to spraypaint the side of a train.

But last Friday night, shortly after 11pm, he and his friend Daniel Elgar, a 19-year-old postman from Southend, were spotted spraying graffiti at a London Underground depot between Barking and Upney stations in east London. In fact, his mother revealed this week, Chapman had been planning to emigrate to Australia from his home in Grays, Essex, to train to be a psychiatric nurse. 'He left me to link other people that nite and said to me that he mite not speak to me soon because he mite be getting put away.

Spray painnt person on train tracks