Moment footballer screams ‘I'll kill you' at women on train after they ‘refused to say which mate was most attractive'
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THIS is the shocking moment a foul-mouthed footballer screams "I'll kill you" at a woman on the train.
The player was captured on mobile phone footage making the vile threats to unsuspecting women passengers.
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Elijah Chilekwa, 27, the former Wales under-19 and Bristol City player, was urged by his friends to stop while he threatened to follow one woman to her house.
He told her: "I'll kill your boyfriend."
Tempers flared after the women reportedly declined to say who they found most attractive out of Chilekwa and the two friends he was travelling with.
The footage show Chilekwa shouting at passengers on the crowded train on May 18.
After the journey between Cardiff Central and Swindon he was reported to police before an appeal was put out for witnesses.
In the footage, Chilekwa says: "I'll kill you, I'll kill your boyfriend.
"I'll follow you, I'll follow you to your house.
"I'll follow you to your boyfriend's house, I'll kill your boyfriend. Whatever.
"If those two girls want to move, you can go. I'm not going to f***ing stop you from going."
He added: "I'll see you about in the morning.
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"Calm, calm. Ring your boyfriend, calm yeah. If that's how you want to play with things."
Chilekwa's friends can be heard shouting his name asking him: "What are you doing?"
As they plead with him to stop, he then proceeds to stand up and tell his friends to "move then".
He is also captured visibly mocking the women he is confronting.
Chilekwa, who is due to be a father, was later arrested by the British Transport Police after the clip went viral.
Zambian -born Chilekwa, of Cardiff, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.
Despite scoring for Wales under-19s on his debut his dreams of turning professional never materialised after he left Bristol City for Worcester City.
He now regularly plays for Cardiff Corinthians and is working as an electrician.
Magistrates in Reading handed him a £769 fine and ordered him to pay £250 in compensation.
After the incident, a British Police spokesman said: "There is absolutely no place for violent or intimidating behaviour on the railway network, and we encourage the victim or anyone who witnessed the incident to contact British Transport Police."
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