UK police say weekend train stabbing attack not ‘terrorism’, one suspect released

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ER Editor: There are already questions being asked about this alleged train stabbing on Saturday evening on the Doncaster (Yorkshire) to London train, passing through Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. We’re not necessarily buying it at all. Here’s a useful report from Le Monde via AP and AFP that copyright forbids us from republishing —

UK police release one of two men arrested over train stabbings and laud a ‘heroic’ rail worker

The two men were arrested eight minutes after the first emergency calls were made at 7:42 pm Saturday from aboard the train …

And —

In a statement Sunday evening, police said the only remaining suspect is a 32-year-old British man who remains in custody on suspicion of attempted murder. A second man initially arrested as a suspect was released without charge after it was determined the 35-year-old was not involved

David Kurten gives us a useful perspective (5 min) on why there are suspicious things about this incident and what it may lead to —

Reaction in the media —

50 Shades of Suspicious ‘footage’ —

Jim Ferguson is a white hat journalist giving us a framing narrative–

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UK police say train stabbing attack not ‘terrorism’, one suspect released

Police say 10 people were taken to hospital after a series of stabbings on a train near Cambridgeshire.

UK police have said one person remains in life-threatening condition after the stabbing of 10 passengers on a London-bound train in eastern England, with “terrorism” ruled out, in what officials described as “an isolated incident”.

Police initially said nine of the 10 people wounded on Saturday were in a life-threatening condition. On Sunday, British Transport Police said five of those had since been discharged.

Two people were initially arrested over the attack, with one released without charge later Sunday, police said.  Another suspect remains in custody.

The Cambridgeshire police said they were called at 19:39 GMT on Saturday after reports that multiple people had been stabbed on a train, the 6:25pm service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross.

“Armed officers attended and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, where two men were arrested,” the police said.

Defence Minister John Healey told Britain’s Sky News on Sunday that there did not appear to be a wider threat to the public after the incident on the London-bound train.

“The early assessment is that this was an isolated incident, an isolated attack,” Healey told Sky News on Sunday.

Starmer ‘deeply saddened’

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it an “appalling incident” that was “deeply concerning”, while Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood said she was “deeply saddened” and urged people to avoid comment and speculation.

The government is keen to stop rumours spreading on social media following an incident in Southport in northwest England in 2024, when internet claims over the murder of three young girls sparked days of rioting across the country.

One witness described seeing a man with a large knife, and told The Times newspaper there was “blood everywhere” as people hid in the washrooms.

Some passengers were getting “stamped [on] by others” as they tried to run, and the witness told The Times that they “heard some people shouting we love [you]”.

Another witness told Sky News that one of the suspects was tasered by police.

London North Eastern Railway, or LNER, which operates the East Coast Main Line services in the UK, confirmed the incident had happened on one of its trains and said all its railway lines had been closed while emergency services dealt with the incident at Huntingdon station.

LNER, which runs trains along the east of England and Scotland, urged earlier passengers not to travel, warning of “major disruption”.

The mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, said in a post on X that he was hearing “reports of horrendous scenes on a train in Huntingdon”.

He added that his “thoughts are with everyone affected”.

Knife crime in England and Wales has been steadily rising since 2011, according to official government data.

While the UK has some of the strictest gun controls in the world, rampant knife crime has been branded a “national crisis” by Starmer.

His Labour government has tried to rein in the use of knives as weapons.

Nearly 60,000 blades have been either “seized or surrendered” in England and Wales as part of government efforts to halve knife crime within a decade, the Home Office said on Wednesday.

Carrying a knife in public can already get you up to four years in prison, and the government said knife murders had dropped by 18 percent in the last year.

Two people were killed – one as a result of misdirected police gunfire – and others were wounded in a stabbing spree at a synagogue in Manchester at the start of October, an attack that shook the local Jewish community and the country.

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