`Do you want to die?' Huntingdon knifeman asked train victim

"Mr Crean said passengers ran down the carriage into the buffet car of the LNER train from Doncaster to London, adding: There was nowhere to go. I didn't have much choice. He said the knifeman asked if he wanted to die before he felt the knife in his arm. He asked me, Do you want to die?', he told the PA news agency. He repeated it. Then I remember his knife going into my arm."

"Mr Crean suffered multiple injuries. There were 13 casualties in total, eight of whom remain in hospital, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told MPs on Monday. Mr Crean said he had no chance to escape as the armed man approached but he managed to get into a train toilet after the confrontation. Of his decision to fight back, he said: Probably not many people would've done it, but then you're leaving people behind you vulnerable."

Stephen Crean, 61, was stabbed repeatedly on an LNER train from Doncaster to London after a man approached with a sword-type weapon and asked, 'Do you want to die?'. A young woman warned passengers, and many fled to the buffet carriage. Crean defended himself with his fists, suffered wounds to his hands and arm, and later hid in a train toilet. Thirteen people were injured in total, with eight remaining hospitalized. Anthony Williams, 32, appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court charged with multiple counts of attempted murder, assault and possession of a bladed article.

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