Black train passenger mocked in racist song

Leicester

  A train passenger who drunkenly mocked a black commuter by singing in an Afro-Carribean accent has been jailed for five months. Sam Timms, 38, serenaded Judy Davis with 2face Idibia’s 2004 hit ‘African Queen’ on the Leicester to London St Pancras train, Blackfriars Crown Court heard. Ms Davis had boarded the train at Wellingborough station and took a seat, said Andrew Copeland, prosecuting. Timms told her ‘That seat’s occupied by my friend,’ after fellow passenger Suleman Haje, 44, went…

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