A PASSENGER who was attacked while protecting others during a mass stabbing on a train, was told by the knifeman “do you want to die?”, he has revealed.
Stephen Crean, 61, a lifelong Nottingham Forest fan, approached the attacker with nothing but his fists as other passengers fled.
The courageous fan was returning from watching Nottingham Forest draw 2-2 with Manchester United, when the attack happened.
He told The Telegraph: “All of a sudden the door of the carriage opened, people ran past me and they were shouting: ‘Run, run, run, man’s got knife’.”
“So I let these people run past me, families, women, young lads.
“Finally they had all packed into the buffet car and the toilets and locked the doors, as you do, and so that was it for me.
“He was on a mission. He knew what he wanted to do and he was going to do it.
“All of a sudden, this knife comes out, and I went straight for him. I tried to punch him.
“I was trying to hold his arm, But he caught me on the top of the head.”
Mr Crean said he was stabbed six times before he managed to lock himself in a train bathroom until the armed police arrived on the scene.
The football fan said when he got up from his seat and approached the attacker, protecting people was his motivation.
When he confronted the attacker, the knifeman asked him “do you want to die?” said Mr Crean.
“I was scared but then it went away, you just do whatever, you just go with it,” he added.
More than 30 officers, including armed police, raced to Huntingdon station at 7.44pm on Saturday after the train from Doncaster to Kings Cross made an emergency stop.
It is believed the knifeman boarded the train at Peterborough at 7.30pm and the rampage began soon after.
Armed cops made the within eight minutes of the first 999 call.
Witnesses on board the train described how passengers were trampled and hid in the toilets as the screams of victims were heard amid the chaos.
One said he initially thought it was a Halloween prank before being left covered in blood.
Anthony Williams was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and multiple passengers were rushed to hospital, including Joshua Gjoshe a footballer for Scunthorpe United.
It has now emerged that Williams also faces charges for another count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in relation to an incident on London‘s DLR network in the early hours of Saturday morning.
A victim suffered facial injuries after being attacked with a knife on a DLR train at Pontoon Dock just before 1am, cops said.
Williams was later identified as the suspect said British Transport Police.
He will appear at Peterborough Magistrates Court today following the horror in Cambridgeshire.
It comes after The Sun released a dramatic video of a suspect being tasered and then arrested on the train platform.
