I agree PK but the companies simply won't entertain the expense and the alternative will be the police saying they will ramp up patrols. Not sure it's good enough but you know money. Thought of giving the drivers a gun and hiring ex military but again not the British way.
It's possible that it is a mental health issue. Reminds me a little of the Greyhound bus murder in Canada. There the killer also pleaded with the police to kill him.
In Germany the police can use trains free of charge when off-duty so long as they wear their uniforms. One of the stated aims is to increase public safety.
The only thing I can think of is having your bags/luggage/coats go through security like how it is in airports before you board the train. The same thing should be done for the London tube as well, I'm honestly surprised that more crimes like this don't happen with how lenient it is.
Oh my god I've never heard of this one before, but reading about that story is horrific.
I must respectfully disagree. It's the nature of this that makes it so unusual. Random attack on people unknown to the assailant? We have to ask what exactly the perpetrator was hoping to gain from it? The vast majority of severe harm inflicted on someone else is done by someone known to the person more often than not family or partners in that case it's very personal indeed. Next in line is often to do with criminality for business purposes ie territory, money/drug trade and reputation. After 6hat is probably crime to do with money ie robberies on unknown people fir money but very very few people will kill someone for a 100 pound phone. Your chances of being murdered by a random person fir little to no reason is very small indeed.
Knifeman who stabbed terrified passengers in Huntingdon train rampage 'had history of mental health issues and was known to the authorities'
"While terrorism has been ruled out, sources confirmed that the suspect had a history of mental-health issues and was known to the authorities."
Knifeman in train rampage 'had history of mental health issues'
The violence lasted 14 minutes on the 6.25 from Doncaster as the knifeman went on a rampage through the carriages.www.dailymail.co.uk
Have you heard "same old story" by Rory Gallagher dotta? Should check it out.Deja vu.
I cannot count how many times I read these words while following cases on WS.
Always the same old story.
Especially
"was known to authorities".
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Honestly, my first thought when the news broke was that I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Sometimes when I'm on the tube in London, I suddenly find myself thinking about how it's mostly a matter of pure luck that there's never been a repeat of 7/7
Not really pure luck. Police have prevented over a 100 late stage terror attacks since 2005. This article is from 2015
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So the man was in London on Saturday morning then on a train heading to London later in the day?
Why not? It depends on the timings but if he boarded a train from King's Cross early in the day he'd have been in Peterborough within an hour or so and could have got back on a southbound train within a further half hour. This was a service on the East Coast main line with trains running at least half-hourly. It's not Amtrak out west with one service in each direction each day
