UK police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man with tried homicide over a mass stabbing assault on a practice that wounded 11 folks.
British Transport Police mentioned Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of tried homicide, certainly one of precise bodily hurt and certainly one of possession of a bladed article over the assault on Saturday.
He’s additionally charged with tried homicide over a separate incident at Pontoon Dock transit station in London earlier the identical day, and police mentioned investigators are “taking a look at different potential linked offenses.”
Police say they aren’t treating the stabbings as an act of terror.
Williams, a British citizen from the town of Peterborough in japanese England, is because of seem in court docket later Monday.
The minutes-long stabbing spree unfold concern and panic by means of a practice certain from Doncaster in northern England to London on Saturday night.
The suspect was arrested when the practice made an emergency cease within the city of Huntingdon in japanese England.
Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied vacationers raced down the practice to get away from the knifeman.
Essentially the most critically wounded sufferer is a member of railway workers who tried to cease the attacker. Police referred to as his actions “nothing in need of heroic.”
He’s hospitalized in a important however steady situation.
