The man has been named as sales exec Tom Osborne, 23, after footage emerged of him apparently snorting drugs on the Northern Line
This is the moment a young businessman apparently snorts cocaine openly on a Tube train in shocking footage.
The man with the white powder in the two-minute video clip has now been named as former public schoolboy Tom Osborne.
Police have confirmed they are investigating the footage in which he announces to fellow Northern Line passengers: "I’m not trying to be a d--k – I just like taking it.”
The 23-year-old sales executive, who works for US technology firm the BMC Group, pours the powder onto his hand, rubs it into his gums and snorts it.
As shocked witnesses back away from him, Mr Osborne says: “Guys, if you want a gummy, there’s some on the floor.”
Mr Osborne, who went to the £30,000-a-year Eastbourne College, East Sussex, can also be heard saying: “I’m pissed. Absolutely f** annihilated.”
He later adds: “Oh my God, I’m f*****. Oh my God I’ve just taken way too much coke. I’m freaking out, f, f — why am I on a Tube?”
A restaurant manager recorded the clip on June 5 when he saw Mr Osborne, who was travelling alone, shadow-boxing in front of bemused passengers.
He grabbed his phone and filmed him between Elephant and Castle and Kennington Station, as Mr Osborne made high-pitched clucking noises on the southbound train.
The witness told The Sun, who first published the footage: “It was like something out of The Wolf of Wall Street, but on the Tube.
"This guy was just being an idiot.”
Mr Osborne grew up in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and has an older sister and younger brother. His father is a financial adviser.
It is understood he has a long-term girlfriend, also 23.
A BMC Group spokesman said they “were aware of the story and are investigating the matter”.
He added: “We do not condone illegal activities among our employees and will take proper action within our disciplinary policy.”
A spokesman for the British Transport Police confirmed they were looking into the footage.
BTP last night tweeted an image of the man, asking: "Do you know this man?
"We want to speak to him about his behaviour on the Northern Line."
A report earlier this month named London as the cocaine capital of Europe, with the highest concentration of the drug in its waste water.
Scientists found sewage in the city contained more traces of the class A drug than anywhere else surveyed.
It is passed into the network in the urine of users.
SOURCE: DAILY MAIL
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