US EditionUK Police Charge Man with Attempted Murder over Train Stabbing, Wounding 11 People
Anthony Williams, 32, faces 11 attempted murder charges after stabbing 10 people on an LNER train and a man at a DLR station, police said.
- On October 31 and November 1, Anthony Williams, 32, was charged with 11 counts of attempted murder after stabbing a man at Pontoon Dock DLR station, east London, and knifing ten on the Peterborough–King’s Cross LNER service.
- Cambridgeshire Police said they were called to three incidents in Peterborough before the train attack, including sightings of a knifeman at a barber shop in Fletton at 7.25pm and 9.25am, and voluntarily referred themselves to the IOPC.
- Eleven people were treated after the attacks, at least five have been discharged, and a rail crew member remains in hospital with stable injuries in Huntingdon station.
- On Monday, Williams appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court and confirmed his identity; magistrates remanded him to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on December 1 to face 10 attempted murder charges in Cambridgeshire plus one in London.
- Official data show 49,600 attacks with sharp instruments in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, while the UK government says almost 60,000 knives were removed and is consulting on live facial recognition.
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The suspect allegedly struck at other stations. Record number of murders with edged weapons in the UK. 32-year-old Anthony Williams, indicted yesterday before British justice for the bloody attack on white weapons, is suspected of involvement in three other previous stabbing attempts...
UK Train Mass Stabbing Suspect Seen Invading a Barbershop Knife in Hand, Terrorizing Clients on the Eve of the Attack
On Saturday (1), Anthony Williams was tackled, arrested, and subsequently charged with eleven counts of attempted murder for his alleged stabbing rampage in a London-bound train.
Huntingdon Train Stabbing Suspect May Be Serial Attacker
Anthony Williams, 32, has been charged after a mass stabbing aboard a high-speed train bound for London left 10 people injured, some critically. The attack occurred Saturday evening and has prompted a wider investigation into several additional knife incidents in the days leading up to the assault. Williams appeared in Peterborough Magistrate’s Court on Monday facing 11 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm, and two counts …
Here the suspected perpetrator is arrested after the stabbing in Huntingdon, UK. Dramatic footage shows how the police electrocute and wrestle the man down. "Give me your fucking hands," a police officer is heard shouting.
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