Manchester: 'Masked' Metrolink passenger released gas into carriages in three 'disturbing' incidents! Guess his religion?

Ghalib Saeed in 2017(Image: GMP)
A man has admitted releasing gas during ‘disturbing’ incidents on Metrolink trams across Greater Manchester.

Ghalib Saeed, 31, let off butane gas on three occasions after boarding trams on the Bury line. Passengers heard a ‘hissing sound’ and saw a man wearing a ‘gas mask’.

Some complained of feeling dizzy, but no-one was hurt during the incidents on March 15, 20 and 22.

Today (September 23), Saeed pleaded guilty to three counts of causing a public nuisance. He changed his plea to guilty at the eleventh hour, ahead of a scheduled trial at Manchester Crown Court.

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Judge Elizabeth Nicholls warned him that the starting point for such offences was a prison sentence. But before adjourning the case for a pre-sentence report, she added: “All sentencing options will remain open."

He will be sentenced in November.

The Manchester Evening News revealed in March how an investigation was launched after multiple reports of a man letting off gas on the Metrolink.

Saeed was seen boarding the tram while wearing a gas mask covering his mouth, between the Queens Road and Crumpsall area. Passengers reported hearing a 'hissing' sound and a strong smell of gas.

A passenger who witnessed Saeed told the Manchester Evening News: "I was sat on the tram and a guy got on at Queen's Road wearing a blue face mask with an industrial gas mask over the top of that.

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