Anthony Williams charged with attempted murder over Huntingdon train stabbings

On 3 November 2025, two days after a mass stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire, British Transport Police announced that Anthony Williams, 32, had been charged. The initial charges were 10 counts of attempted murder, along with a count of actual bodily harm and one of possessing a bladed article.

The attack happened on the evening of Saturday 1 November, on a London-bound LNER service from Doncaster. The train made an emergency stop at Huntingdon and officers detained a suspect within minutes of the first emergency calls. Several people were seriously hurt, and 11 people were wounded in total.

Williams appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody to face a later hearing. Police said the incident was not being treated as terrorism. Prosecutors later said they would pursue an additional attempted murder charge linked to an earlier incident at a London station, bringing the total to 11 counts. The charges marked the start of the criminal case that later coverage, including train CCTV footage, has built on.