Three youth team players for Queens Park Rangers football club have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of a promising young Vietnamese architect.
Reports under investigation by police suggest that the footballers, two aged 16 and one 17, were “horsing around” on a platform at Earl’s Court Station in London when Tu Quang Hoang Vu, 25, fell into the path of an eastbound Piccadilly Line train.
The fatal fall also left footballer Harry Smart, 17, in a critical condition with head and leg injuries.
It is believed that Mr Smart was play-fighting on a team-mate’s shoulders when he fell during the rush-hour on November 23, taking Mr Vu with him.
The footballers are all friends and former team-mates of the trainee footballer