A 17-year-old boy described today how he was slashed in the face and hand by the Huntingdon train attacker as he travelled home with friends from a theme park.
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Isaiah Idris was on a Docklands Light Railway service in London when Anthony Williams drew a knife on him in front of terrified passengers, who fled screaming.
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The teenager – who hid behind an adult at one point - revealed he was so shocked he didn't realise he was injured until a woman told him and he noticed blood ‘dripping off my face’.
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Williams is facing 14 charges of attempted murder during a Halloween weekend 'rampage' last year – ten on a DLER train from Doncaster to London on November 1 and another four - including the one on Isaiah, who is now 18 - starting from the previous evening.
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Cambridge Crown Court has heard that he denies the offences but admits 12 counts of wounding with intent and two of attempted wounding with intent.
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Isaiah had spent the day at Thorpe Park in Surrey on October 31 when he became the fourth person to be attacked by Williams as it pulled away from West Silvertown station in east London in the early hours of the following morning.
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Isaiah Idris was on a Docklands Light Railway service in London when Anthony Williams, 33, pictured, drew a knife on him in front of terrified passengers
‘When the train started moving, it was only a couple of seconds after that he slashed my face,’ he told an officer during a police interview played to the jury.
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‘When he slashed me, I didn’t notice it, I didn’t feel anything.
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But I seen everyone getting up and head towards the end of the carriage.
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‘Everyone was shouting and screaming and I was just confused.
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That’s when my friend and another lady maybe in her 20s in a Halloween costume were saying “Oh, you’re bleeding”.
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‘I looked down and I saw the blood dripping off my face.
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That’s when I realised what was going on.’
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Isaiah, who had a heavily bandaged right hand as he sat in the interview room, said Williams disappeared briefly before returning and ‘walking towards me’.
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‘I was trying to hide behind this middle-aged African man.
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The guy with the knife, he came just to me.
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He was looking at me,' he added.
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Williams was also caught on CCTV removing a knife from a rucksack before entering Ritzy Barbers in Peterborough
Barbers and customers fled to the rear of the premises as Williams walked inside wielding the blade
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He pointed the knife at my chest and he said “Are you beefing with the devil?”
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I said “No, no, no”.
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‘Whilst I’m saying “No, no” he sliced me again and that’s when I blocked it with my hands but he hit my hand.
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‘After that, the African man I was hiding behind, he pushed him away or was shooing him away saying “F*** off, he’s just a young boy”.
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‘The guy with the knife was still standing there, waving the knife until the train stopped at the next stop, Pontoon Dock.
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That’s when he got off the train.’
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The teenager ran to the ‘other end of the train’ before getting off and seeking help.
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Witnesses described seeing the defendant acting erratically on another train on October 31 and muttering ‘I’m going to do it’.
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Jurors have also seen footage of the defendant striding through the LNER service from Doncaster to London where he attacked ten people
Ethan Daniels, who was traveling on the Peterborough to London train noticed ‘someone playing Halloween music from his mobile’.
‘He walked past us a few times talking to himself saying “I’m the baddest.
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No one is as bad as me”,’ he said.
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‘I thought he was going to do something to us…
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‘He kept reaching for a bag saying “I’m going to do it”, then he was throwing the bag away and saying “No, I can’t do it”.’
Mr Daniels said he avoided making eye contact with the man, who he later discovered was Williams, 33, as ‘I was in fear for my safety’.
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Another passenger, Keirah Lee-Oakman, texted British Transport Police because she was so concerned about Williams’ behaviour as he ‘stumbled about’ on the train.
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Williams has been appearing in court via videolink from a room at Rampton Hospital in Peterborough
He was ‘seemingly in his own world’ as he uttered words like ‘boom’ and ‘power’ and repeatedly said: ‘I haven’t got it.’
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BTP officers spotted a man they believed to be the person on the tracks at Stevenage railway station but said they were unable to follow him because of the risk from passing trains, the jury was told.
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CCTV footage of an earlier incident at Ritzy Barbers in Peterborough was also played to the court, showing Williams standing outside and saying words like ‘boom’ and ‘f***’.
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He then took a knife from a black rucksack and stormed inside, sending people scattering towards the rear of the premises.
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Filomena Campanaro, whose lives next door with her husband who rents out the premises, said she ‘immediately' called police’ when staff showed her the CCTV shortly afterwards ‘because there was someone out there behaving like that with a knife’.
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She added: ‘Also, it was Halloween and children would be out.’
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Emergency services workers at the LNER train which stopped at Huntingdon after Williams attacked ten passengers with a knife
Williams, of Peterborough, has admitted affray in relation to the incident, the jury have been told.
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The attacks began when a 14-year-old was knifed on a footbridge in the town on the evening of October 31, the court heard last week.
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Two men were attacked nearby moments later.
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…and 12 more, not listed.
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