Shocking footage of brawl between passenger and train inspector

This is the moment a pair of 'fare-dodging' thug passengers beat up a ticket inspector on a train platform during a savage clash.



Christmas shoppers watched in horror as the two yobs set upon the rail worker in the shocking footage posted to Snapchat.



The employee, wearing a fluorescent yellow bib, allegedly tried to detain the men for not paying their fare before boarding.



But a vicious brawl erupted at Chafford Hundred station in Essex, where Christmas sales attracted flocks of bargain-hunters to the Lakeside Shopping Centre.



The 30-second clip, filmed by a sniggering friend on 27 December, shows the pair trying to escape the security guard and board the train.



But the 49-year-old, employed by train operator C2C, grabs one of the boys by the hood and drags him out of the carriage.