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Huntingdon train passengers thought stabbing was a joke, court hears
Cambridge Crown Court heard that some passengers stayed seated after a man on a London-bound LNER train said he had been stabbed and told others to run, the BBC reported.
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Cambridge Crown Court heard Tuesday that some passengers on a London-bound LNER train stayed seated after a man who had just been stabbed told them to run, the BBC reported1.
Prosecutors say Anthony Williams, 33, of Langford Road in Peterborough, stabbed 10 people on the York to London King's Cross service after it left Peterborough on 1 November 2025, and that the train made an unscheduled stop in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire1.
Williams denies 10 counts of attempted murder on the train and four other alleged attempted murders in earlier incidents in Peterborough and London, the BBC reported1.
Jurors were shown CCTV of the attack and a video interview with Jonathan Gjoshe, described as the first person stabbed1. Gjoshe said he was on his phone in carriage J, thought Williams might be someone he knew, then saw a knife and later jumped over a table after feeling a shock1.
He said he went through the carriage telling people he had been stabbed and to run, but that some remained sitting down, thinking it was a joke1. He spent four days in hospital and asked staff whether he was going to die that day, according to the BBC account of the interview1.
Gjoshe told police the attacker had a "pure straight face" and showed no emotion, and that he felt the man "definitely had a few drinks before," the BBC reported1.
Jurors then watched an interview with Sachin Balakrishnan, another passenger in the same carriage, who said he heard screaming, saw people jumping over seats, then a man with a large knife1. He said he ran, felt pain in his right arm, and at first thought his top was wet from a drink1.
Williams is also accused of attempting to murder eight other named passengers on the train between Peterborough and Huntingdon, the BBC reported1. Prosecutors further allege that on 31 October 2025 he tried to kill three people in Peterborough, then a teenager in the early hours of 1 November on a DLR train in east London1.
The court has been told that whether Williams carried out the attacks is not in question, and that jurors must consider whether he intended to kill1. The trial continues1.