Anthony Williams, 33, pleaded not guilty to all charges Tuesday, including ten counts of attempted murder, in connection with a stabbing incident on a train traveling from Doncaster to London.
The alleged attack occurred on an LNER train on the evening of November 1. The train made an unscheduled stop in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, after emergency services received multiple calls.
Williams also denied 11 other offenses spanning the two days prior to and the day after the train incident. These additional charges include four more counts of attempted murder. He is currently being held at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
During a video-link hearing at Cambridge Crown Court, Williams entered not guilty pleas to each charge. He was arrested at Huntingdon station by armed police who responded to reports of an incident on the 6:25 p.m. LNER service.
Charges from November 1 include the attempted murder of nine other passengers and a train buffet worker. Williams also denies attempted murder and possession of a bladed article from an incident in the early hours of that day at Pontoon Dock DLR station in London, where a victim sustained facial injuries. He further denies assaulting a man and possessing a bladed article on trains between King’s Cross and Peterborough, and between Peterborough and Huntingdon on the same date.
Prior to the train attack, on October 31, Williams denied attempted murders of three individuals in Peterborough. Additional charges from that date include affray at a barbershop and two counts of possessing a bladed article in a public place. He also denies the theft of knives from an Asda store in Stevenage on October 31.
The final charge Williams denied was assault occasioning actual bodily harm against a male police officer while in custody on November 2.
Judge Mark Bishop scheduled Williams' trial to begin on October 26 and estimated it would last between six and eight weeks. A further case management hearing is set for October 2.