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Anthony Williams is charged with stabbing 11 people on a train and linked to three other knife attacks, amid ongoing efforts to reduce knife crime in the UK.
- On Monday, Anthony Williams, 32, was charged with 11 counts of attempted murder for a Saturday train stabbing and an earlier Pontoon Dock station attack.
- Cambridgeshire Police said investigators are probing whether Anthony Williams was involved in three other knife incidents in Peterborough, including a Friday stabbing of a 14-year-old, and have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
- The attack unfolded on an LNER Doncaster–London service after Anthony Williams boarded at Peterborough, and he was arrested when the train made an emergency stop in Huntingdon about 75 miles north of London.
- Eleven people were treated in hospital after the attack, with five discharged and several still admitted, including a railway staff member in critical but stable condition.
- Office for National Statistics data show knife killings fell by more than 20% to March 2025, while British Transport Police retain primacy for the overall investigation of the three incidents.
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An Algerian rail worker has been praised as "heroic" after he stepped in to protect people during last week's mass stabbing attack on a UK train. Samir Zitouni, 48, was left with critical injuries after he confronted the perpetrator, who wounded 10 people on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday. Transport police said the suspected attacker, Anthony Williams, 32, has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, as well as …
Why are there so many stabbings in Britain? | News Channel 3-12
By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — A gruesome train stabbing that left nine people with life-threatening injuries over the weekend has put the spotlight back on the United Kingdom’s widespread knife-crime problem. A 32-year-old British man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with the attack, which took place on a train traveling through central England to London on Saturday evening. He has not yet entered a p…
Anthony Williams, 32, was charged with attempted murder of ten people on the train, as well as a stabbing attack on Saturday morning early.
London train stabbing: ‘Heroic’ rail employee saves lives; suspect charged with attempted murder
A heroic train employee remains in critical condition after confronting a knife-wielding attacker on a London-bound train, an act that helped save passengers’ lives. Police identified the suspect as Anthony Williams, 32, who now faces multiple attempted murder charges.
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