Speaking to the press anonymously, the man was travelling on the ill-fated train through Huntingdon when the attack began, as he gave his eyewitness account as to what happened
A passenger who was on the tragic Huntingdon train has told of what he saw. It comes as two men have been arrested for the attack that left 10 injured, two still in ‘serious’ condition.
Several people were injured when the stabbing spree began on the 18:25 LNER service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross shortly after it left Peterborough station on Saturday evening (November 1). The train was diverted to Huntingdon after passengers called Cambridgeshire police at 19:42 and alerted the driver.
Since then, police have been hard at work trying to establish the motives behind the chilling incident. Now, one day on from the horrific incident, eyewitnesses are giving their accounts of what they saw as the stabbings began.
One person admitted they initially did not believe what they were seeing, before revealing they thought the perpetrators could have had something even more disturbing onboard.
Speaking anonymously to the Daily Express, one commuter in his 20s had been returning home from a Nottingham Forest football match when he boarded the train. He revealed he had only gotten onto the ill-fated train due to missing his initial train by less than a minute.
After finding a seat, the man plugged himself into his music and started texting his pals – while wearing noise-cancelling headphones. But as he was heading home to get ready for a party, everything was turned on its head.
As the stabbing spree began, the man recalled: “At first I thought it was Halloween, is this some sort of joke? Is it a prank? And that’s when I realised how panicked they looked, and then I saw someone who was covered in blood.
“I thought, ‘f*** me, what’s going on here?'” he added. “I quickly realised I needed to get out of there… just joined them moving through the train.”
The man went on to detail how hard it was to move quickly in between carriages as one person in the group he was in had already been stabbed and needed to be helped slowly through the train. However, panic soon began to spread as to whether there was anything more sinister coming their way.
“Someone was at first worried there was a gun,” he admitted. “Someone said ‘Oh there’s a guy — we think he’s got a gun’, but that wasn’t the case.”
Giving details on the suspects he spotted carrying out the attacks, the man said that the suspect seemed “dead behind the eyes” and had been charging at the group with what he determined to be a “kitchen knife”. While he admitted the attackers were not running through the train, they were walking “with intent”, almost as if he was “possessed”.
Eventually when the train arrived in Huntingdon, there was some apprehension over whether the assailants would get off the train together with those who were injured. The man shared he just ran onto the platform and “didn’t look back.”
Despite the chaos that emerged from the stabbings, the man said that he was just about ‘getting through’ after seeing the traumatising incident play out before him. He added that after standing dazed in Huntingdon station’s car park, he was invited for a cup of tea by a passerby, helping him calm down and work out how to get home.
On Sunday morning (November 2), the British Transport Police confirmed that 10 people had been treated for injuries in hospital; including two who remain in a “critical condition”. Two men, aged 32 and 35, have been arrested.
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