"Police are investigating whether the man accused of trying to kill 10 people during the Huntingdon train attack is linked to a string of knife incidents in the hours before the bloody rampage. Anthony Williams, 32, was charged on Monday morning with 10 counts of attempted murder after an attack on an LNER train to London King's Cross on Saturday evening."
"Detectives are now also investigating whether the suspect is linked to another three knife incidents which took place in Peterborough in the run-up to the Saturday attack. At around 7:39pm on Saturday, police were called to reports of a knife attack on the LNER service from Doncaster to London shortly after it left Peterborough station (Joe Giddens/PA Wire) Cambridgeshire Police said a 14-year-old boy was stabbed on Friday evening in the city centre."
Anthony Williams, 32, was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after an attack on an LNER service shortly after it left Peterborough station. He was also charged with one count of attempted murder over an early-hours incident at Pontoon Dock DLR where a victim was slashed in the face. Detectives are investigating whether Williams is linked to three further knife incidents in Peterborough: a 14-year-old stabbed in the city centre and two reports involving a knifeman at a Fletton barber’s. British Transport Police and Cambridgeshire Police are probing the incidents; the IOPC said a referral did not meet criteria.
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