I didn't have a choice': Hero recalls moment he confronted Huntingdon knife attacker

""There was nowhere to go. I didn't have much choice, he said, adding that the knifeman asked if he wanted to die before he felt the knife in his arm. "He repeated it. Then I remember his knife going into my arm, he said. Mr Crean said the knife caught him several times as he confronted the attacker on the train. Probably not many people would've done it, he reflected on his decision to fight back. But then you're leaving people behind you vulnerable.""

""Suspect Anthony Williams, 32, has appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, following the knife attack and a separate incident on the DLR in London earlier on Saturday. Ten of the counts of attempted murder were linked to the train attack, British Transport Police said, while the eleventh was linked to the incident in London. Williams was also charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of possession of a bladed article.""

Stephen Crean, 61, was returning home on the train from Doncaster to London when a young woman ran through the carriage yelling "Knife, knife, there's a man with a big knife". Crean confronted the attacker with his bare hands and sustained multiple cuts after feeling the knife in his arm. Eleven people received hospital treatment following the attack. Suspect Anthony Williams, 32, has been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, plus assault and possession of a bladed article. A train worker remains in critical but stable condition. Scunthorpe United player Jonathan Gjoshe sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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