Accused vandal charged after burns death

A 19-year-old who was trying to graffiti trains in Brisbane when his mate suffered fatal burns will face a Brisbane court next month.

Police allege the teenager and his friend, 26, broke into a rail shunting yard at Tennyson on Saturday night to deface trains.

The older man suffered horrific burns when he brushed electrical wires. He suffered deep burns to 90 per cent of his body and died in hospital on Sunday.

The 19-year-old is due to face the Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 4, charged with trespass, wilful trespass on a railway, and wilful damage by graffiti.

The death was the second involving train graffiti in as many months.

A man was killed at Runcorn, in Brisbane's south, in late September as he was train surfing and attempting to spray graffiti on a carriage.