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A 33-year-old man has admitted to multiple charges related to a stabbing incident on a train in Cambridgeshire last year. Anthony Williams, from Langford Road, Peterborough, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wounding with intent during a pre-trial hearing at Cambridge Crown Court. The attack took place on the 18:25 Doncaster to London service on 1 November, shortly after departing Peterborough, which led to an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon railway station due to injuries sustained by passengers and staff.
Williams appeared remotely from Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire and also accepted responsibility for several other offenses. These included affray at a barber shop in Peterborough on 31 October, theft of knives from an Asda store in Stevenage on the same day, and possession of bladed articles in multiple locations spanning Peterborough, east London’s Pontoon Dock DLR station, and aboard the train between Peterborough and Huntingdon. Additionally, he admitted to assaulting a male police officer on 2 November and committing a common assault on a Govia Thames Link train traveling between London St Pancras and Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, on 1 November.
Despite these guilty pleas, Williams has denied more serious charges. He stands accused of 14 counts of attempted murder connected to incidents both on the train and in London and Peterborough. Specifically, he denies attempting to kill ten individuals on the train near Huntingdon, as well as other attempted murder charges related to events at Pontoon Dock DLR station and in Peterborough. Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC confirmed that Williams’s admissions do not settle the full indictment, meaning a trial is still necessary.
The upcoming trial is set to begin the following Monday and is expected to last approximately six weeks. It will fully address the remaining charges, including the ones Williams continues to deny
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