Terry Marsh gets 5k compo after attack by Ian McNeilly Jan 20th 2008

Former IBF light-welterweight champion Terry Marsh has won £5,000 compensation after two rail ticket inspectors attacked him. The Daily Mirror reported that the 49-year-old Basildon man was cut and bruised after they dragged him off a train, wrongly claiming his ticket was out of date. The heavy-handed inspectors told him to buy another ticket as he arrived at Fenchurch Street station in London or wait for the police to arrive. But when officers told Marsh to wait even longer for the police to deal with him, he left, got on the train and was dragged off. Marsh won the payout from c2c, who admitted liability at Central London county court. The former champ said: "They were thugs and pulled me to the floor, then held me prisoner. The way I was treated by c2c was diabolical. They only apologised last week. That could have come sooner." c2c said the guards were from an independent security company which it no longer used. The bullies can count themselves lucky mellow Marsh didn't chin-check them. The Essex man was a stylish dynamo in his day who was British, European and IBF champ. Marsh beat Clinton McKenzie on points to win the Lonsdale, knocked out Alessandro Scapecchi in six to win the EBU belt which he defended twice and stopped Joe Manley in ten in his home town to win his version of the world title. Marsh retired undefeated (26-0-1) in 1987.

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