Cops may have 'missed chance' after being called to multiple knife incidents before mass train stabbing

Daily Record ^ | 03 Nov 2025 | Liam Doyle and John-Paul Clark

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Police have confirmed they were called to three incidents before a knife attack on a train.

Cops may have missed chances to arrest the Huntingdon train attack suspect after admitting they were called to multiple knife-related incidents prior to Saturday's rampage.

Cambridgeshire Police had been called to three incidents in Peterborough prior to Saturday night's attack near Huntingdon Station in which ten people were seriously injured. And it admitted officers didn't even visit the scene on one occasion. Police in London were also called to investigate a stabbing in the early hours of the morning before the incident, but no-one was detained, reports the Mirror.

Officers said in a statement released just hours after Anthony Williams, 32, appeared in court charged with eleven counts of attempted murder, that three knife-related incidents on Friday and Saturday happened .

In a statement, the force said: “We are aware of three incidents that occurred in Peterborough on Friday evening (31 October) and Saturday morning (1 November). The first incident of a man with a knife at a barbers in Fletton happened at 7.25pm on Friday but was reported to us at 9.10pm – two hours after the incident occurred.

“At the time of reporting the man was no longer there and had not returned, so we did not send officers, but a crime was raised. The second incident was reported to us at 9.25am on Saturday again by the barbers in Fletton while the man was still at the scene.