RACIST UNMASKED
Vile Tube racist who ranted ‘you’re all going back’ at black passengers unmasked as son of wealthy building firm owners
THE vile tube racist who ranted "you're all going back" at black passengers has been unmasked as the son of wealthy building firm owners.
Billy Steele, 31, launched his sickening racist tirade on the Central Line towards three black passengers, one of whom knocked him out with a single punch.
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The yob's mother Toni Steele today said her son handed himself over to cops and said he won't press assault charges.
Speaking from her £800,000 home in leafy Coulsdon, south London, Mrs Steele said: "Billy is on this video that has gone viral. He has gone to the police and owned up. He doesn’t want the man who hit him to be punished."
She added he is "getting help" for his behaviour.
He lives in a smart, gated block of apartments, in Mottingham, south-east London where flats sell for around £320,000 and neighbours said the construction worker had been in trouble before.
Two years ago, he was thrown out of the Prince of Wales pub refusing to leave a barmaid alone, but he stormed back in moment later, ripping his shirt off and offering to fight drinkers inside.
He was punched back out the bar, left with a broken nose and was never seen there again.
'SELF-DESTRUCT MODE'
A former friend told the : "The lads in the Prince of Wales ended up breaking his nose.
"This is when people started to distance themselves from him as it was starting to get difficult to go out with him.
"He was never a problem until the last couple of years, I’d never known him to ever be violent but it’s almost like he wants a reaction.
"I believe he needs help for his mental health. I don’t think he intends it to be malicious but he’s almost in self-destruct mode.
"Even from the videos showing him on the tube train, he doesn’t seem to make sense, he’s speaking gibberish.
"I haven’t really spoken to him from the turn of the year due to his behaviour."
The friend said Mr Steele sometimes attended Arsenal home games at the Emirates and used to play football himself in Honor Oak Park in South London.
Another local resident said: "Billy isn’t the most popular of residents in the flats. He drinks quite a bit.
"He hasn’t been seen since the weekend. Nobody knows where he is or how badly he was hurt after being punched."
The white man, who was not wearing a face covering, was filmed on the London Underground telling a group of black me "you're my pets" in his vile rant.
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He shouted at the passengers "you're black... oh my god" as the woman filming said "what's that supposed to mean?"
Another passenger told him: "Not a single person on the train wants to hear that garbage coming out of your mouth. Disgusting."
He then started swinging on the handrails singing "they're lesser than us" and telling the black men "you're my pets".
One furious passenger told him: "It's not funny being racist".
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The man then started screaming "violence", which led to a woman accuse him of being "EDL scum" - an apparent reference to the English Defence League.
The man shouted: "I don't roll with EDL scum".
She then said: "You're worse than them then," and he shouted "yes".
He then told her to "f*** off c*** face".
As the train pulled up to Bank station, the man gestured at the three black men as they got up from their seats.
He then squared up to them before one of the three punched him in the face, causing him to fall backwards and crash his head onto the floor of the train.
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The British Transport Police are investigating the incident, filmed on Saturday by passengers.
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A British Transport Police spokesperson said: "We are aware of two videos on social media showing an incident on a Central Line Underground train on 15 August.
"Enquiries are ongoing, and any witnesses or anyone with information is asked to contact BTP."
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