Anthony Williams denies charges over LNER train stabbing attack
Anthony Williams denied 21 charges over a train stabbing that left 10 people accused to have been attacked on an LNER service near Huntingdon.
Anthony Williams, 33, of Langford Road in Peterborough, denied 10 counts of attempted murder and 11 other charges as he appeared by video link at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday. Judge Mark Bishop remanded him in custody and set a trial date of October 26, 2026, with a further case management hearing on October 2.
The charges centre on an attack aboard an LNER train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross that had called at Peterborough on November 1, 2025. Prosecutors allege 10 people were stabbed on the service, which made an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon after passengers pulled emergency alarms. Armed police met the train there after emergency calls came in at 7.42pm.
Williams entered pleas of not guilty to a total of 21 charges in turn. Those include allegations of attempted murder, possession of a bladed article, actual bodily harm, affray, theft and assault. He also denied an allegation of actual bodily harm involving a male police officer while in custody on November 2, 2025.
British Transport Police is leading the investigation and linking the train attack with four earlier knife-related offences in Peterborough and London. Its timeline places a stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough city centre on Henry Penn Walk at about 7.10pm on October 31, 2025. The boy was later discharged from hospital with minor injuries.
Police also tied Williams to an incident at a barbers in Fletton, Peterborough, around the same time on October 31, when a knife-wielding man entered the shop but left before officers arrived. Cambridgeshire Constabulary officers reached a later report of that same incident within 18 minutes on November 1, 2025, but could not locate or identify the suspect.
The linked allegations also include a knife attack at Pontoon Dock DLR station in the early hours of November 1, 2025, where a 17-year-old suffered facial injuries, along with offences involving a pack of knives taken from an Asda store in Stevenage, an assault on a man on a King’s Cross to Peterborough train, and possession of a bladed article near Henry Penn Walk, the Rail World car park and Queen’s Walk in Peterborough.
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