Youths who choked student on Tube, forcing him to apologise for being gay, walk free from court

Two youths who choked a student and forced him to apologise for being gay in a vile homophobic attack on the Tube have walked free from court.

Will Mayrick, 20, feared for his life and was left struggling to breathe after two attackers placed him in a headlock as he travelled on a train to a fancy dress event at the O2 with four of his friends.

The photography student today said the horrifying ordeal might never have happened if the teenage culprits, who cannot be named because of their age, had taken LGBT education classes at school.

He has called for the Government to make LGBT studies compulsory after his attackers, aged 16 and 17, pleaded guilty to the assault which occurred on a Jubilee line train on October 21 last year.

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