Jail for Sri Lankan man who attacked stranger with bottle on Brisbane train

A Sri Lankan man has been sentenced to less than three months in prison for striking a stranger on the head with a glass bottle on a Brisbane train.

The April 25 attack on a Cleveland line train was captured on CCTV. Saranees Sivakumar, 22, admitted the affray charge and appeared before the Cleveland court by video from custody.

Sivakumar and Badley Mohini, who was with him, had approached and spoken to the victim, who was travelling alone; the encounter quickly turned violent. The pair struck the man on the head and face several times, dragged him out through the closing doors to stop him leaving the train, and then moved to another carriage.

Mohini has already been sentenced to 10 months in prison over the same attack. Both men had been allowed to migrate to Australia as children, and the verdicts against them have also fuelled debate in the country about safety on public transport.