A teenager has been locked up for seven and a half years for repeatedly stabbing a man on a train.

Ryan Hills was left bleeding with seven wounds, one of which narrowly missed his heart and another a major artery.

Mohammed Adan, 18, cut his hand in the attack and blood left on the train was matched to his.

Mr Hills was about to get off the train in Swanley when the trouble started in April last year.

He told a jury at Maidstone Crown Court he had been drinking with his brother-in-law Alfie King and a friend in Sutton-at-Hone.

He and Mr King went to the station and caught a train for the short journey home. He still had a bottle of beer in his hand.

“I’d had three or four beers,” he said. “I was happy, not drunk. We got on the train and sat down. We were having a laugh and joke.

“I heard someone approach and say to be quiet or ‘shut up’. We didn’t take any notice.”

The train arrived at Swanley and Mr Hills and Mr King got up to walk past two other passengers.

“I could feel someone behind me,” he said. “They were both standing there. I heard something said.

“They started getting too close for my liking. One of them put his hand in his pocket.

“I put my hand out to make them move back. I touched one on the shoulder. I knew something was going to go down.

“The next thing I remember is getting a sharp pain in my chest. It was like a stinging pain. Then they have come in – boom. The bottle came out of my hand.

“I threw two or three punches to get myself out of this situation. I pushed him away and punched him to the head.

“There were arms everywhere. As I was hitting him I was getting stabbed. I could feel pain in my chest.” Mr Hills, a road surface worker, said he had wounds to his armpit, his left shoulder and his hip. One went through his jeans to the bone of his hip.

He was kept in London’s King’s College Hospital for a week.

Prosecutor Bridget Todd described it as an unprovoked malicious attack.

Student Adan, of Oakfield Road, Croydon, had denied wounding with intent, claiming he did not have a weapon.