Daily Star

FIRST CLASS PRAT

Boss takes 2 seats on busy train

- By JAMES CAVEN

A RAIL boss sparked fury by taking up two first-class seats on a packed train and barring other passengers.

Mark Boon, head of operations at Govia Thameslink Railway, told them to stay out of his virtuallye­mpty carriage.

He then spread out, placing his bag on the seat next him, as commuters squeezed into the doorway and adjoining carriage on the train to London Victoria.

Hair stylist Emma Fitzpatric­k, 33, of Croydon, south London, said: “He told me the carriage was for first-class passengers only. I told him I was feeling a little unwell so I needed a seat, but he

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