Anthony Williams: jury hears 14 attempted-murder allegations after train knife attack
Prosecutors presented the case against Anthony Williams to a Cambridge jury on 28 October. The 33-year-old has admitted wounding twelve people and other offences but denies fourteen counts of attempted murder. Ten relate to the knife attack on an LNER train near Huntingdon.
Opening the case, prosecutor Christopher Paxton showed footage of a passenger trying to disarm Williams on 1 November 2025. According to Sky News, he described passengers fleeing through the moving train or attempting to protect others. A crew member who intervened was also stabbed repeatedly, the prosecutor told the court.
The train was travelling from Doncaster to London and made an emergency stop at Huntingdon. Besides the ten train-related counts, three concern events in Peterborough on 31 October 2025 and one concerns Pontoon Dock DLR station in London in the early hours of 1 November. Those fourteen allegations remain for the jury to decide.
British Transport Police confirmed that on 19 October Williams admitted twelve wounding-with-intent offences, alongside offences including attempted wounding, weapons possession and violence. Those admissions do not settle the dispute about an intention to kill. The prosecution says his actions demonstrate that intention; Williams denies attempted murder. The trial is continuing.
