Arabic version: راكب خشي وجود مفجّر انتحاري في هجوم قطار هانتينغدون

According to BBC News, a passenger on a London-bound LNER train initially feared a suicide bomber during a mass stabbing at Huntingdon. Milan Campion was travelling on the service on 1 November last year when it made an unscheduled stop during an attack prosecutors say was carried out by Anthony Williams.

Giving evidence at Cambridge Crown Court in a video interview played to jurors, Campion said he had boarded at Grantham and that many passengers had travelled from the Nottingham Forest versus Manchester United game. He said he opened a toilet door and saw Williams sitting inside, staring at the ground. Later, after hearing shouts that there was a man with a knife, Campion said passengers ran down the aisle.

“I thought it was a bomb at first,” Campion said. “I thought it might have been a suicide bomber so I need to get as far away as possible to maximise your chance of survival if it goes off.” He told jurors Williams was “threatening everyone indiscriminately” and appeared angry, though he could not make out what he was shouting.

Other witnesses also described the alleged violence. Dinaria Soares said she saw a knifeman attack footballer Jonathan Gjoshe, whom jurors have heard was the first person attacked on the train. Malani Ranawake said she saw Williams stabbing a man in carriage J and heard him say: “I’m not going to leave anyone.”

Williams, 33, of Peterborough, denies 10 counts of attempted murder on the train. He also faces four further attempted murder charges linked to earlier incidents in Peterborough and London. The court has heard that whether Williams carried out the attacks is not in question; jurors must decide whether he intended to kill. The trial continues.