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| The father of a 19-year-old killed by a Tube train said his son's death was a "pointless waste of life". | The father of a 19-year-old killed by a Tube train said his son's death was a "pointless waste of life". |
| Daniel Elgar, from Southend, Essex, who had a five-month-old baby, died when he was hit by the train on Friday night, apparently after spraying graffiti. | Daniel Elgar, from Southend, Essex, who had a five-month-old baby, died when he was hit by the train on Friday night, apparently after spraying graffiti. |
| He and Bradley Chapman, 21, from Grays, Essex, who was also killed, ran into the path of a District Line train at Barking station depot in east London. | He and Bradley Chapman, 21, from Grays, Essex, who was also killed, ran into the path of a District Line train at Barking station depot in east London. |
| Police have said the deaths highlight the dangers of trespass on the railway. | Police have said the deaths highlight the dangers of trespass on the railway. |
| Mr Elgar's mother Vanessa wept as she told BBC London News: "He was one in a million and he really meant well. I love him and I miss him all the time." | Mr Elgar's mother Vanessa wept as she told BBC London News: "He was one in a million and he really meant well. I love him and I miss him all the time." |
| His father Keith said: "It's something that's just a pointless waste of life." | His father Keith said: "It's something that's just a pointless waste of life." |
| Mr Elgar told how his son had been "artistic" at school. | Mr Elgar told how his son had been "artistic" at school. |
| "It was one thing he was good at - drawings and paintings. But I can only describe that maybe that's all a bit safe and maybe at his age he needed something that gave him some sort of risk factor. | "It was one thing he was good at - drawings and paintings. But I can only describe that maybe that's all a bit safe and maybe at his age he needed something that gave him some sort of risk factor. |
| I can't understand dying spraying a railway track that's just going to get scrubbed off anyway Keith Elgar | I can't understand dying spraying a railway track that's just going to get scrubbed off anyway Keith Elgar |
| "But we have got a memory now of Dan just on a dark grimy railway track." | "But we have got a memory now of Dan just on a dark grimy railway track." |
| He urged other "graffiti artists" not to go out and spray tributes to their son. | He urged other "graffiti artists" not to go out and spray tributes to their son. |
| "We don't want anyone else at risk and if there's other lads out there thinking they'll pay a tribute - have a drink on him or meet together but there is no need to kill yourselves over it is there?" | "We don't want anyone else at risk and if there's other lads out there thinking they'll pay a tribute - have a drink on him or meet together but there is no need to kill yourselves over it is there?" |
| He added: "I can't understand dying spraying a railway track that's just going to get scrubbed off anyway." | He added: "I can't understand dying spraying a railway track that's just going to get scrubbed off anyway." |
| Mr Elgar's girlfriend Jodie Shea urged others: "Stay off the railway line." | |
| They believe members of the graffiti gang fled after being shouted at by security staff who spotted them. | They believe members of the graffiti gang fled after being shouted at by security staff who spotted them. |
| Bradley Chapman's mother Jackie told BBC London News that her son was a family man who was planning to go to Australia to become a psychiatric nurse. | |
| 'Not worth it' | |
| "He loved his family very, very much. He loved me and he'd do anything for me," she said. | |
| She said he fell back in with old friends spraying graffiti after he broke up with his girlfriend but did not necessarily want to get back into "that world". | |
| But when they last spoke he told her he was no longer spraying graffiti. | |
| She added: "The only thing I ever worried about was if he was arrested. I never thought of the danger." | |
| Bradley's mother told others thinking about spraying graffiti on railway lines: "Please don't do it, it's not worth it. If they only knew the pain." | |
| She said she could not bear it if anyone got killed paying tribute to her son by spraying graffiti where he died and urged anyone not to do it. | |
| Officers, who believe there were four young people in the gang, arrested two men aged 23 and 25 following the incident, on suspicion of causing criminal damage. They were later bailed. | Officers, who believe there were four young people in the gang, arrested two men aged 23 and 25 following the incident, on suspicion of causing criminal damage. They were later bailed. |
| On Saturday, Chief Superintendent Paul Crowther said initial inquiries showed the gang had not been chased by the security guards. | On Saturday, Chief Superintendent Paul Crowther said initial inquiries showed the gang had not been chased by the security guards. |