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Suspect charged with new offences after Huntingdon train stabbing

Home Secretary addresses Commons after police refer themselves to watchdog over Huntingdon train stabbing suspect
  • Anthony Williams, 32, has been charged with seven further offences following a high-speed train stabbing in Cambridgeshire earlier this month.
  • The new charges include the attempted murder of a 14-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man in Peterborough on 31 October.
  • Williams is also accused of attempted grievous bodily harm against another 22-year-old in Peterborough on the same day.
  • Further charges relate to affray and possession of a bladed article at Ritzy Barbers in Peterborough, and the theft of knives from an Asda in Stevenage.
  • He also faces a charge of assaulting a 31-year-old man on a train travelling between Hitchin and Biggleswade, with all these incidents occurring on 31 October.
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