A father says he used his car to ram a man suspected of stabbing 10 people on a train near Huntingdon just before police swooped in to arrest him. Dave Scott, 57, was waiting to collect his daughter from the railway station in the Cambridgeshire market town when he said a man holding a knife tried to get in his car.
Passengers on the Doncaster to London King’s Cross LNER service were attacked soon after the train left Peterborough on Saturday evening. The train was then diverted to Huntingdon, where Mr Scott was waiting in the station car park. Mr Scott’s BMW could still be seen inside the police cordon following the incident.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: “It was a case of fight or flight, and I just powered away as quick as I could, also taking him with [me].”
Mr Scott, from St Ives in Cambridgeshire, said he was just yards away when police made the arrest, and he left his car in position lighting up the area so officers could see more easily.
British Transport Police confirmed to the BBC that the suspect was arrested shortly after Mr Scott’s intervention.
Mr Scott said he saw a knifeman “heading straight for me”, adding: “If I remember rightly, he tried the door, couldn’t get in and he started chopping down on the top of my car.”
He said police then “just appeared from everywhere”.
Anthony Williams, 32, was remanded into custody at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday, charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over the train incident, as well as one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article.
Separately, Mr Williams, of no fixed abode, is also charged with another count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in connection with an incident at Pontoon Dock DLR station, east London, in the early hours of Saturday.
He is next due to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on December 1.
Police say Williams is being linked to three other incidents, including the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough, with investigations ongoing.
