BRITISH MAN ANTHONY WILLIAMS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER OVER TRAIN STABBING

Mon 03 November 2025:

British prosecutors have indicted 32-year-old Anthony Williams from Peterborough with 10 counts of attempted murder, along with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of possessing a bladed article, in relation to a violent knife rampage on a high-speed train.

The 32-year-old was also charged with another count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in connection with a separate incident at Pontoon Dock transit station on Saturday, police said, adding investigators are “looking at other possible linked offences”.

Police said the stabbings were not being treated as an act of “terrorism”.

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Scenes of panic

Williams is due to appear at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Transport Minister Heidi Alexander said on Monday that the suspect was not known to authorities.

“I can tell you he was not known to counterterrorism police. He was not known to security services,” Alexander told Times Radio, adding that she could not comment on whether the man had been known to mental health services.

Police were alerted to an emergency on board the train between Doncaster, a town in northeast England, and London’s King’s Cross Station – a typically busy route – at about 7:40pm (19:40 GMT) on Saturday.

British Transport Police said officers responded within eight minutes of the first emergency call.

The train was stopped at Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire, where armed officers backed by police cars, a fleet of ambulances and two air ambulances swarmed the station in the eastern England market town.

Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied travellers ran from the train.

A knife was recovered at the scene, and CCTV footage reviewed by detectives showed a train crew member intervening to stop the attacker.

“He literally put himself in harm’s way,” Alexander said. “There will be people who are alive today because of his actions.”

The railway staff member is hospitalised in a critical but stable condition.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the incident as “appalling” and said he was “deeply” concerned by it.

“My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,” Starmer said in a statement on X.

“Anyone in the area should follow the advice of the police,” Starmer added.

On Wednesday, the Home Office announced that nearly 60,000 knives have been seized or surrendered in England and Wales as part of the government’s drive to cut knife crime by half within ten years.

Possessing a knife in public already carries a maximum four-year prison sentence, and the government reported an 18 percent drop in knife-related homicides over the past year.

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