I was on Huntingdon train – at first we thought attacker had a gun | Politics | News

A passenger on board yesterday’s train to Huntingdon mass stabbing has told how he and other passengers feared the attacker was armed as they fled the knife-wielding maniac. Speaking anonymously on his way home from yesterday’s Nottingham Forest football match, the man in his 20s said he missed his booked train by less than a minute, prompting him to board the ill-fated service to King’s Cross at 7.08pm.

He boarded the train and engaged in typical train duties; like listening to music with noise-cancelling headphones and texting friends before the anticipated party that evening. However, only 10 minutes into the journey, the passengers in the front carriage burst through the doors. The eyewitness recalled: “At first I thought it was Halloween, is this some kind of joke? Is it a joke? That’s when I noticed how panicked they looked and then I saw someone covered in blood.”

“I thought, ‘Fuck me, what’s going on here?’ I quickly realized I had to get out of there… I joined them as they continued on the train.”

“Someone [at] At first I was worried there was a gun, someone said ‘oh, there’s a guy we think has a gun’ but that wasn’t the case.

“We couldn’t move very quickly because A – we were quite outnumbered and B – there was at least one person in our group of people traveling on the train who had been stabbed.”

Revealing new gruesome details of one of the attackers, she added: “We looked back and I could see this tall Black male in his early 30s… he looked dead behind his eyes and was advancing towards us, chasing us with what looked like a kitchen knife. “He was bloodied and moving between cars.

“He wasn’t running towards us but he was walking determinedly, it was a pretty frightening walk. He almost looked like he was going crazy.”

“The scariest thing at the time was that we were clearly in a moving vehicle and we didn’t know how long we would be trapped there.

“The scariest part was that we were walking away from this man inside the train, but we didn’t know how many cars we could pass through until we reached the back end of the train.”

On arriving at Huntingdon, he described feeling a brief but false sense of relief when the doors opened, explaining that he and other passengers were “overtaken by that strange feeling where for a moment you feel like it’s all over, then immediately you realize this guy is still there.”

He added: “I didn’t look back, I just stepped off the platform… y’all [were] ‘It’s coming out, it’s coming out!’ says

The passenger said despite his terrifying experience, he persevered and showed heroism and kindness during the frenzied knife attack.

He recalled a young man in his 20s taking the lead and trying to tend to one of the attacker’s bleeding victims.

“There was this kid who was really taking the lead, trying to calm everyone down and making sure this woman was okay and getting the support she needed. So this guy was yelling ‘does anyone have a hard object or clothing that we can wrap up in?’ [her injury with]. I had a t-shirt in my bag that I threw away.

He added that while he was standing in the car park of Huntingdon railway station waiting for a friend to take him home from London, a passerby invited him for a cup of tea and to charge his phone.

This morning British Transport Police said 11 people were being treated in hospital and two remained in a “life-threatening” condition.

Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder; The 32-year-old Black is a British national and the 35-year-old is a British national of Caribbean descent.

Inspector John Loveless said the attack was not currently being treated as terrorism.