Multiple people stabbed on train in cambridgeshire England . November 1st 2025

[MollyHarps]

One of the people still in a critical condition is a LNER worker - who police describe as a hero for his actions on that train.

Police issue major suspect update after horror train stabbings

Two people remain in a life-threatening condition

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

‘Detectives have reviewed the CCTV footage and it is clear that his actions were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved many lives’

Praying he pulls through so he can be recognised as the hero he is.

 

[Serononin]

Gotta say they did a good job getting the suspect into custody alive. Now let's hope he talks

 

[Sweeper2000]

Gotta say they did a good job getting the suspect into custody alive. Now let's hope he talks

Talks what? Some incoherent babbling about demons and gods and evil and good? Maybe something about teh illuminati thrown in? Just a guess from me but I think he'll be put in a secure hospital pretty soon.

 

[Skigh]

Hero Huntingdon train driver who saved lives is war veteran

Andrew Johnson, of Peterborough, rapidly diverted the London-bound train to Huntingdon station after being alerted to the mass stabbing, enabling emergency services to act fast.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The hero train driver who helped save passengers' lives during a knife attack in Huntington is a Royal Navy and Iraq War veteran, it has been revealed.

Andrew Johnson, of Peterborough, rapidly diverted the London-bound train to Huntingdon station after being alerted to the mass stabbing, enabling emergency services to act fast.

The terrifying 15 minute knife rampage yesterday evening left 11 people hospitalised, with two remaining in a 'life-threatening condition' today.

 

[Serononin]

Talks what? Some incoherent babbling about demons and gods and evil and good? Maybe something about teh illuminati thrown in? Just a guess from me but I think he'll be put in a secure hospital pretty soon.

You may well be right

 

[Serononin]

Once again I find myself thinking that the only silver lining is he didn't have a gun

 

[Professor Moriarty]

rapidly diverted the London-bound train to Huntington station after being alerted to the mass stabbing, enabling emergency services to act fast.

The train goes through Huntington anyway and some intercity trains stop there anyway. All he did was to stop there.

I think the man who saved the girl from being stabbed is the hero. He took a big risk and paid the price, to save the girl.

 

[Skigh]

Hero rail worker who 'saved many people's lives' remains critical

A hero rail staff member who shielded a young girl from a frenzied knife attack on a train in Huntingdon has been praised for 'undoubtedly saving people's lives'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[rvlvr]

Have to sympathise with the guy who was arrested but wasn’t involved, shows the importance of not jumping to conclusions and why we should allow police time and space to investigate properly and establish all the facts. Unfortunately, they’re under tremendous pressure from what is imo an incredibly juvenile mindset of demanding everything all at once that seems to pervade modern society.

 

[Sarahlou]

Have to sympathise with the guy who was arrested but wasn’t involved, shows the importance of not jumping to conclusions and why we should allow police time and space to investigate properly and establish all the facts. Unfortunately, they’re under tremendous pressure from what is imo an incredibly juvenile mindset of demanding everything all at once that seems to pervade modern society.

Yep.
I can't bear the jumping to conclusions and the way people expect to be told everything immediately these days. And the assumption that things are being hidden if we don't get the full details for a while.

I think the emergency services did a great job here.
I think this is yet another case of untreated severe mental illness.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I think the emergency services did a great job here.
I think this is yet another case of untreated severe mental illness.

I suspect it's going to be yet another case of severe mental illness caused by cannabis. The increase in paranoid mental illness we are seeing as a society does seem to be linked to increasing use of skunk and synthetic forms of cannabis by teenage and young adult men.

 

[Sweeper2000]

My guess is a relapse after treatment probably exacerbated by the use of psychoactive substances. It happens so much, like genuinely so much. I read a official document detailing all the occasions when such things had happened. It's so often peoples families who are the victims as well. They get let out of hospital, looked after by family, stop the meds and start taking drugs then lose it. Then something like this happens and it's always horrific.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

My guess is a relapse after treatment probably exacerbated by the use of psychoactive substances. It happens so much, like genuinely so much. I read a official document detailing all the occasions when such things had happened. It's so often peoples families who are the victims as well. They get let out of hospital, looked after by family, stop the meds and start taking drugs then lose it. Then something like this happens and it's always horrific.

In Birmingham, UK, there were a number of incidents quite a few years ago in which the Solihull NHS mental health trust released three paranoid schizophrenic men in-patients within a fairly short period of time. Between them they went on to stab four people to death between them - one city centre bus passenger, one young woman who was sunbathing in Centenary Square during her lunch break, and two men selling the Big Issue behind WH Smith. It later emerged that all three had been released against the recommendations of the mental health staff who dealt with them on a daily basis.

 

[HollyHunter9]

Video from a train employee who was at the platform as the train came in. He also explains how once the emergency alarm is pulled, the driver has only a matter of seconds to decide what to do before the train comes to an automatic emergency stop. He had to contact the control and get diverted to a platform and over ride the emergency stop to keep the train moving.

I think all the train staff, emergency services and civilians involved have all been so brave in such a terrifying situation.

 

[Sweeper2000]

In Birmingham, UK, there were a number of incidents quite a few years ago in which the Solihull NHS mental health trust released three paranoid schizophrenic men in-patients within a fairly short period of time. Between them they went on to stab four people to death between them - one city centre bus passenger, one young woman who was sunbathing in Centenary Square during her lunch break, and two men selling the Big Issue behind WH Smith. It later emerged that all three had been released against the recommendations of the mental health staff who dealt with them on a daily basis.

Yeh totally believable. Genuinely think that side of the NHS is Genuinely poor tbh. I know it's not well paid so they struggle to get good staff in and keep them. Its a real struggle. I had a ex gf who was a psych nurse and its not a nice career. keep safe folks.

 

[Sweeper2000]

Video from a train employee who was at the platform as the train came in. He also explains how once the emergency alarm is pulled, the driver has only a matter of seconds to decide what to do before the train comes to an automatic emergency stop. He had to contact the control and get diverted to a platform and over ride the emergency stop to keep the train moving.

I think all the train staff, emergency services and civilians involved have all been so brave in such a terrifying situation.

Top work that man. Quick thinking from many people played a role here. Imagine if it did just stop dead where it was? They would be locked in with it. Possibly a much longer time frame before help got there or they got out.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Yeh totally believable. Genuinely think that side of the NHS is Genuinely poor tbh. I know it's not well paid so they struggle to get good staff in and keep them. Its a real struggle. I had a ex gf who was a psych nurse and its not a nice career. keep safe folks.

I suspect the issue is that the views of the psychiatrists who maybe see patients on a weekly basis are allowed to overrule those of the mental health nurses who deal with them on a daily basis.

 

[HollyHunter9]

Top work that man. Quick thinking from many people played a role here. Imagine if it did just stop dead where it was? They would be locked in with it. Possibly a much longer time frame before help got there or they got out.

Yes exactly, I think getting to a platform was the best course of action for sure. Like you say if it just stopped in the middle of nowhere, it would've likely hindered emergency services getting to them and trapped them for longer.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Generally, if a passenger pulls the "emergency cord" (as the alarm used to be called), the driver prevents the application of the brakes. I've been on trains when someone has had a heart attack or otherwise been seriously ill and someone has triggered the alarm. There is usually no point in stopping in the middle of nowhere. The driver can usually talk to the person who sounded the alarm (as there are a speaker and microphone for that purpose on the trains I commuted on) and the driver will normally continue to the next station where paramedics and/or police can board. If people were shouting to the driver through his door that there was a knifeman going crazy, it would have been an easy decision to continue to Huntington.

 

[Sweeper2000]

Think the emergency brake is situation specific. Say for example a chemical bomb goes off and starts to fill a carriage with gas, or a fire people obviously can't wait for the next stop to get off as immediate evacuation is needed.

Eta. Or perhaps if something damages the train itself and then it continuing motion presents a possible danger.