Man pleads guilty to wounding charges after train stabbings in Cambridgeshire
Anthony Williams due for trial over attempted murder charges
A man has pleaded guilty to the wounding with intent of 10 people who were injured during a mass stabbing on a London-bound train that was stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire last year.
Anthony Williams, 33, is due to stand trial at Cambridge Crown Court next week accused of their attempted murder, which he denies.
A number of people were stabbed on an LNER train from Doncaster to London on the evening of November 1 last year.
Williams pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing to 10 counts of attempted murder in relation to the LNER train incident.
At a pre-trial review hearing at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday, he pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wounding with intent relating to the incident on the LNER train.
He also pleaded guilty on Monday to the wounding with intent of a man at Pontoon Dock DLR station in London in the early hours of November 1 and to the wounding with intent of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough on October 31.
He also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to wound a 22-year-old man and a 28-year-old man in Peterborough on October 31.
Williams appeared at Monday’s hearing on a video-link from custody.
He pleaded guilty to the 14 new counts that were put to him, 12 of wounding with intent and two of attempting to wound with intent, and was also rearraigned on seven counts to which he had previously pleaded not guilty.
On Monday, Williams pleaded guilty to affray at a barber shop in Peterborough on October 31 and the theft of knives from an Asda store in Stevenage on October 31.
He pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article in a public place at a footbridge near Henry Penn Walk, the Rail World car park and Queen’s Walk in Peterborough on October 31.
He admitted possession of a bladed article at Pontoon Dock DLR station in London in the early hours of November 1.
Williams pleaded guilty to a common assault on a Govia Thames Link train travelling between St Pancras station and Biggleswade station on November 1.
He pleaded guilty to possession of a knife on a train between Peterborough and Huntingdon on November 1.
He also pleaded guilty to the assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a male police officer in custody on November 2.
He denies 14 counts of attempted murder – 10 of them in relation to the LNER train, three said to have happened in Peterborough and one at Pontoon Dock DLR station.
Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said: “Those guilty pleas do not resolve the indictment so there will be a trial.”
The judge, Mr Justice Calver, said Williams would stand trial in relation to the remaining counts from Monday October 26.