# Passengers flee as court hears evidence of knife attacks aboard LNER train

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/terrifying-moment-huntington-train-passengers-flee-for-their-lives-as-knifeman-rampages-through-carriages/
- Published: 2026-10-28T19:27:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T19:38:00+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16246699/Terrifying-moment-train-passengers-flee-lives-knifeman-carriages.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Horror, World

## Key points

- Court footage shows passengers fleeing a knife attack on an LNER train.
- Ten people were attacked aboard the service on 1 November.
- The driver diverted the train to Huntingdon, where Williams was arrested.

## Summary

Footage shown at Cambridge Crown Court depicts passengers fleeing and hiding as Anthony Williams allegedly attacked people with a knife on an LNER train to London. The case matters because prosecutors say the train attack formed part of a series of assaults across the Halloween weekend, and the jury is hearing evidence about what happened.

The article says three people, including a 14-year-old boy, were attacked in Peterborough on 31 October, followed by an assault on a man on London’s Docklands Light Railway. On the evening of 1 November, ten people were attacked aboard the train; staff member Samir Zitouni was stabbed while trying to intervene with a frying pan, and passengers also used a toaster to defend others. The driver diverted the train to Huntingdon, where passengers ran along the platform and Williams was arrested; he denies 14 counts of attempted murder.

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