CCTV shows staff member fight train attacker with frying pan

A mass train stabbing in which a knifeman is accused of trying to kill 10 people in a "storm of violence" was "all over in about five minutes", a court has heard.

Anthony Williams, 33, denies 14 counts of attempted murder in relation to an attack on a London-bound LNER train between Peterborough and Huntingdon on 1 November 2025, and incidents in Peterborough and London the day before.

On the second day of the trial at Cambridge Crown Court, prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC described CCTV footage showing "hand to hand fighting" and a victim "literally fighting for his life."

Jurors also heard how a victim thought he would die, but was saved by his dog who "sent the defendant running off".

Jurors heard how Scott Green, was travelling on the Doncaster to King's Cross train with his dog Poppy.

Paxton said: "He thought he was going to lose his life on the train when the defendant tried to stab him for the third time.

"It seems, members of the jury, that Poppy the dog, for Mr Green at least, saved the day and sent the defendant running off.

"You will hear that in an unrelated incident the defendant had previously been bitten by a dog."

Paxton also told how one victim, Sachin Balakrishnan had been stabbed in the forearm and chest, puncturing a lung "and "being just centimetres from his heart".

Commenting on the CCTV footage Paxton said: "You can see the panic, you can see the fear in the faces of those fleeing."

He said there was "simply hand-to-hand fighting as Mr Balakrishnan is literally fighting for his life".

Paxton said: "In this storm of violence, and even when gripped by fear, many there on that train helped others and, as we will see, some stood tall, quite literally against the defendant's violent onslaught."