Man, 32, charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after train stabbings

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1. > A 32-year-old from Peterborough has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of bladed article following a stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday, British Transport Police says.

   *(As per the BBC)*

2. They seem to have very quickly ruled out the other guy as a suspect. I hope he’s alright. 

3. A very fast response from the police there

   Hoping for a very good recovery for all those affected by this

4. Anthony Williams? Well look at that, not a migrant after all. How is that possible!? /s

   Brainwashed racists go fuck yourselves.

   I hope the victims all recover quickly.

5. “He is also charged with another count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in connection to an incident at Pontoon Dock DLR station on 1 November.”

   Sounds like a psycho who was just out to hurt/kill people.

6. Purposely stayed away from this I was more interested in how the survivors were getting on especially the intervening rail employee who was seriously hurt.

   From what I understand there was a service user who tried to stall the attacker as well to buy the others time who was already discharged and the rail driver was rock solid for not stopping the train in middle of nowhere but thinking on their feet, I dread to imagine how bad this might had been otherwise even with speedy police response

   Just a horrible thing to have happenned.

7. It’s sad there’s such a racial element to all crimes now so that even the police report it to prevent misinformation. It feels like another Americanisation.

   Anyways, hopefully the bloke gets a whole life tariff. No Home Secretary is gonna release this guy.

8. /r/UKpolitics top comments when this kicked off at the weekend were all about immigration levels.

9. So on the same day he tried to kill someone in London, travelled back to Peterborough, and then got on another train to London and tried to kill 10 more. I wonder what his backstory is. It would be extremely rare for someone to start behaving like that at 32 with no history of anything.

10. Strange r/ukpolitics moved on from this story quickly I wonder why.

11. Love the fact that the racists come out, but don’t mention that the gender of the person is once again male! Regardless of race, crimes like this are generally committed by men. (I know not all men are horrible and I’m not trying to incite anything, but there’s an irony there)

12. The biggest threat direction for successfully carried out mass casualty events is now mental health.

    It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that this guy had dealings with mental health services in the past.

    “Prevent” was set up and seemingly is doing sterling work in preventing mainly Islamic radicalisation. MI5 is foiling multiple group plots a year and since 2017 (I think?) has been 100% successful.

    What the government really should announce is huge beefing up of mental health provision, but I don’t think they have the money.

    You could argue that isn’t weird we have people advocating for metal detectors at every station entrance, but would be baulk as a society at rethinking treatment in the community for known paranoid schizophrenics? It’s tricky.

13. So someone on the Nolan show said the guy was screaming at the cops to kill him. So I wonder if we have a suicide by police going on here

14. Not to make light of the incident, but this really has created a wonderful opportunity to witness the fact that most journalists have clearly never caught a train in their life and don’t have the slightest idea how they work…

15. This Man guy does a lot of bad shit, I see him in the news all the time

16. The flag shaggers are going to be bitterly disappointed. Hope their wives are ok

17. Have I read that report right…..the guy stabbed those on the train and another person on the DLR.???????

18. People stabbed, Reddit more concerned about whether anyone was being racist to the perpetrator.

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