Police issue major update on Huntingdon train investigation and suspect Anthony Williams

Police have issued a major update on the Huntingdon train incident and suspect Anthony Williams.

The British Transport Police is investigating three other offences in connection with the 32-year-old, including the stabbing of a teenager.

The three offences were reported to Cambridgeshire Police and the BTP on October 31, the day before the mass stabbing, and on November 1, the morning of the "major incident" in Huntingdon.

The BTP are now investigating a timeline of events leading up to the evening of November 1, when eleven people were hospitalised after reports of a mass stabbing onboard a train approaching Huntingdon.

The timeline of events starts on Friday, 31 October at 7.10pm, when a 14-year-old boy was stabbed by a man with a knife in the city centre on Henry Penn Walk in Peterborough. He was taken to hospital with minor injuries and was later discharged.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary have said the offender had left the scene when the call was made and despite a search of the area by officers and a police dog, the offender was not identified.

Then on On Friday 31 October a man with a knife entered a barbers in Fletton, Peterborough around 7.10pm. This was reported to Cambridgeshire Constabulary two hours after the incident occurred, who have updated that at the time of reporting the man was no longer there and had not returned, so they did not send officers, but a crime was raised.

Police are also investigating reports of an incident on a DLR train at Pontoon Dock, where a 17-year-old victim suffered facial injuries after being attacked with a knife on November 1.

BTP were alerted at 00.46am, but the suspect had left the location before police arrival. BTP subsequently identified Anthony Williams as a suspect and took steps to locate and arrest him that day.

The third incident was on the morning of the train attack at 9.25am, when a "further incident" was reported to Cambridgeshire Constabulary by the barbers in Fletton while the man was still at the scene.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary stated their officers were deployed to the location and arrived within 18 minutes. Upon searching the area, officers were unable to locate the man or identify him.

A BTP statement said: "Detectives from BTP are linking all these incidents, and active enquiries are being made."

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