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This shocking footage shows a woman shouting racist abuse on a packed Tube train. Stunned commuters are not sure how to react, especially when the drunk woman appears to become violent. A terrified child looks on at the woman when she is stood up by the doors.

Warning: contains expletives (and is quite long)
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihJU4fbQWrk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgrXBQQ_BKY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

It is amazing that this is about the 5th jaw dropping video we have seen! The woman also realises she is being filmed.

YouTube video of racially abusive woman on Central Line: We arrested a 42yo Romford woman this morning in relation to the incident

Woman arrested over 'racist rant' on Central Line

A woman has been arrested after video footage apparently showing ethnic minority Tube passengers being racially abused was posted online.

The alleged abuse was recorded on a packed Central Line train between St Paul's and Mile End stations on 23 January, police said.

A 42-year-old from Romford was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated common assault and a racially aggravated public order offence.

The woman remains in police custody.

She was arrested after attending a police station in Essex, British Transport Police said.

Officers said they were notified about the video on YouTube on 24 January.

A woman has admitted racially harassing a fellow Tube passenger after a video of her appeared on the internet.

Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, was filmed delivering an expletive-ridden rant on a Central Line train travelling between St Paul's and Mile End on 23 January.

A seven-minute long video of the incident was uploaded to YouTube.

Woodhouse, of Romford, Essex, admitted racially aggravated intentional harassment, at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

The prosecution offered no evidence on a separate charge of racially aggravated common assault.

She will be sentenced at the same court on 29 May.

The judge told Woodhouse she was "not ruling out a custodial sentence".

'Very distressing'
 
The court heard Woodhouse's rant was aimed at Galbant Juttla, the man who filmed the tirade.

Mr Juttla, of Ilford, east London, decided to film the incident on his mobile phone after Woodhouse berated a black female passenger, before sitting down between two men and ranting, the court heard.

She was returning from a retirement party where she had consumed an "unknown" quantity of champagne, the court heard.

Mr Juttla, who was returning from a funeral of a family friend, asked Woodhouse to stop rambling because she was drunk.

Prosecutor Claire Campbell said: "She then leaned towards the gentleman sitting next to her and said 'I will have you arrested because you do not live here'.

"The male pushed her away and she fell on to the adjacent seat.

"She stated 'I hope you are not claiming benefits and I hope you pay your taxes'.

"Mr Juttla responded: 'I pay more taxes than you, love'.

"Mr Juttla pulled the emergency alarm fearing an escalation of events and to enable her to be removed from the train."

'Disgusted by it'
 
Days after the video was posted online Woodhouse went to police voluntarily but said she could not remember the incident.

Following the hearing Mr Juttla said: "I found it very distressing.

"I uploaded it to YouTube because I thought that was the fast track process to catching this person.

"I also needed to show the public that kind of person is out there and not to put up with this kind of behaviour.

"My kids have seen the video and they are disgusted by it.

"She needs to be set an example of. People should look at what happens to her and say 'we can't behave like this in the public domain'."

In 2008 Woodhouse was fined following a similar offence on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), the court heard.

Racist Tube rant woman Jacqueline Woodhouse jailed

A London Underground passenger has been jailed for 21 weeks after she admitted hurling racist abuse at fellow passengers.

Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, of Romford, east London, directed an expletive-ridden rant at Tube passengers on the Central line on 23 January.

A seven-minute video of the verbal assault was uploaded to YouTube.

She received a 21-week prison sentence and a five-year Asbo at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Woodhouse admitted racially aggravated intentional harassment, at the court, earlier in May.

The prosecution offered no evidence on a separate charge of racially aggravated common assault.

The court heard she stumbled over a black woman named Judy Russell as she boarded the carriage and proceeded to hurl insults, shouting: "You Africans take our council flats."

The video shows Galbant Juttla, who filmed the incident on his mobile phone, telling Woodhouse to keep her mouth shut and that she had had too much to drink.

"It's not your country anyway so what's your problem?" she said. "It's been overtaken by people like you."

In further remarks, on a packed train between St Paul's and Mile End stations, she told passengers: "I'll have you arrested because you don't live here" and "I hope you are not claiming benefits."

The video of the verbal assault was viewed on YouTube more than 200,000 times.

Woodhouse handed herself into police, telling officers she could not remember the comments but recognised herself in the video.

Following the hearing, Mr Juttla, of Ilford, east London, said: "I found it very distressing. I uploaded it [the footage] to YouTube because I thought that was the fast-track process to catching this person. I also needed to show the public that kind of person is out there and not to put up with this kind of behaviour. My kids have seen the video and they are disgusted by it."

Condemning Woodhouse's outburst, District Judge Michael Snow said: "Anyone viewing it would feel a deep sense of shame that our citizens could be subject to such behaviour who may, as a consequence, believe that it secretly represents the views of other white people.

"The train was packed with people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds," he added. "The people included children. She became loud, foul-mouthed and aggressive. She targeted her behaviour at those who weren't white. She threatened violence against more than one person and it took place over a prolonged period."

He added her "grossly offensive" language reflected her hostility to her fellow passengers.

The judge told Woodhouse she would serve half her prison term behind bars and imposed an order banning her from using the Tube and the Docklands Light Railway while drunk, for a five-year period.