Stephen Crean was injured in the knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

Earlier, Crean told the BBC's Lucy Manning that he sustained an injury to his left hand as he tussled with the alleged train attacker.

He says the attacker asked him: "Do you want die?"

You can hear more from Stephen Crean in the video below:

It's been almost two days since a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire left 10 people injured.

If you're just joining us, here's a brief look at the latest updates:

The suspect: Anthony Williams, 32, has appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder following the Cambridgeshire attack on Saturday evening, and a separate incident in London hours earlier.

The charges: As well as the 11 counts of attempted murder, Williams has also been charged with two counts of possession of a bladed article and one count of actual bodily harm in connection to an alleged assault on a police officer following the Cambridgeshire attack.

Three possibly-linked incidents: Cambridgeshire Police is reviewing three further incidents in Peterborough, including the stabbing of a 14-year-old, to establish whether there is a connection between them and the Huntingdon train attack on Saturday evening - here's a closer look.

Pictured: The BBC has obtained an image of Anthony Williams in a barber’s shop in Peterborough the evening before the alleged train attack.

"He's gone for me": Stephen Crean, one of the victims of the Cambridgeshire knife attack, tells the BBC his hand was "sliced" as he confronted the attacker on the train.

Footballer "slashed": Scunthorpe United footballer Jonathan Gjoshe was "slashed across the bicep" during the attack, the club says, adding it sends its "heartfelt well wishes to all the victims".

The BBC has obtained an image of Anthony Williams in a barber’s shop in Peterborough the evening before the alleged train attack.

He has been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder after knife attacks on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening and a separate incident in London hours before.

Cambridgeshire Police are reviewing three further incidents in Peterborough on Friday 31 October and the morning of Saturday 1 November to establish whether there is a connection between them and the Huntingdon train attack on Saturday evening.

Friday evening: A man seen with a knife at a barbers in Fletton, Peterborough

• Police say this happened at 19:25 GMT on Friday but was reported to them at 21:10 - two hours after the incident occurred
• They add that at the time of the report the man was no longer there so they did not send officers, but a "crime was raised"

Saturday morning: A second incident reported by barbers

• This was reported to police at 09:25 on Saturday, again by the barbers in Fletton, while the man was still at the scene. Officers were deployed to the location and arrived within 18 minutes
• Following a search, officers were unable to locate the man or identify him and another "crime was raised"

Friday evening: A 14-year-old stabbed by a man with a knife

• Police are also investigating whether a third incident in which a 14-year-old was stabbed by a man is linked to the train attacks
• They say this happened at 19:10 on Friday, the victim was taken to Peterborough City Hospital with minor injuries and later discharged
• The offender had left the scene when the call was made and despite a search of the area by officers and a police dog, the offender was not identified. A "crime was raised" and an investigation commenced, with "scenes of crime attending"

In the statement, Cambridgeshire Police add:

"We are currently reviewing all incidents in the timeframe to understand whether there were any further potential offences.

"British Transport Police retain primacy for the overall investigation, which will include these three incidents.

"We voluntarily referred ourselves to the IOPC for independent scrutiny of these incidents, as is standard practice in these cases."

Laura Foster
Senior reporter

We can now bring you the full statement from Scunthorpe United:

"Jonathan Gjoshe was one of the victims affected by the shocking attack on an LNER train bound for London on Saturday evening.

"We can confirm that Jonathan sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the attack, but currently remains in hospital.

"Due to the ongoing investigations taking place, we are currently unable to update further.

"Everyone at the club, from the board, management and his team-mates, along with all staff behind the scenes, sends our heartfelt well wishes to Jonathan for a full recovery, which is also extended to all the victims on board the train."

Laura Foster
Senior reporter

One of the victims of the Huntingdon train attack has been confirmed as Scunthorpe United footballer Jonathan Gjoshe.

His club have just told the BBC that the player was slashed across the bicep and has had to have an operation in hospital.

The club says his condition is not life-threatening.

Image source, Scunthorpe United

Lucy Manning
Special correspondent

Stephen Crean’s left hand is heavily bandaged and he still has blood in his hair.

He is one of the train passengers Anthony Williams is accused of attempting to murder in Cambridgeshire.

The Nottingham Forest football fan is being hailed a hero after he confronted the train attacker, going face to face with him in the carriage.

He tells the BBC how he "tussled" with the man who asked him "do you want to die? Do you want to die?" as he slashed him on the head and hand.

Crean says he first saw people running down the train shouting that there was a man with a knife. As people ran to the buffet car he said he wanted to make sure passengers were safe.

"I saw him coming towards me - a guy with a rucksack and he's obviously got something in there.

"Everyone’s gone towards the buffet carriage, and that is on the verge of being full up. There's no one else getting in there. I wasn’t even going to bother pushing to get in. There's young women and they need to get them in.

"I confronted this guy, because I’ve got to make sure that the door's locked and I've looked around to save a bit of time. But then he started, he pulled this thing out. It was an over-large blade thing.

"He’s gone for me and there was a tussle in the arms with him and that's where my hand, the fingers are really bad, four cuts through them, sliced. And then he raised it and must have caught me when I was ducking and diving and must have caught me on the head.”

Crean says it’s nice to hear that people are calling him a hero but he thinks there were also other heroes yesterday.

“It’s lovely to hear. But I'd say there are other heroes like the police and the guys that got me off the train, and the ambulances and the hospital staff, they're probably the real heroes. And the train guy that's really badly injured. So, you know, it's a big shout to call someone a hero, but it's nice.”

He says he was determined to confront the attacker to give another passenger time to close the buffet door.

“That door still wasn't shut behind me, because I could still see him struggling to close it. So until I knew it was closed I wasn’t moving away from it.”

Image source, Stephen Crean/BBC

Daniel Sandford
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

In the courtroom a little earlier we heard that Williams is charged with assaulting a police officer following the attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

The assault allegedly resulted in a broken nose.

Downing Street says it is sure that police will look into its handling of the events leading up to the train attack in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

When asked if there were questions for the police to answer, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesman says: “Clearly, whenever there is a serious incident of this kind it would be natural to assume that police forces would look at the handling of their cases, and I’m sure that would be the same here.”

The spokesman adds that "ordinary people showed extraordinary bravery on Saturday to save the lives of others".

"The prime minister pays tribute to all those who stood firm in the face of this horrific attack. They are heroes in the truest sense of the word," they say.

Daniel Sandford
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

After a brief appearance in Peterborough Magistrates' Court, Antony Williams has been remanded in custody.

Here's a reminder of what he has been charged with:

• Ten counts of attempted murder following a stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday
• Actual bodily harm in connection to an alleged assault on a police officer in a custody suite, following the train attack
• One count of possession of bladed article in connection to the incident in Cambridgeshire
• Another count of attempted murder in a separate incident at Pontoon Dock Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station, London, in the early hours of Saturday

• Another count of possession of a bladed article in connection to the incident at Pontoon Dock DLR station

Daniel Sandford
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

After just seven minutes in the courtroom, the hearing is over.

Anthony Williams has been remanded in custody. He gave his address as "no fixed abode".

His next appearance in court will be at Cambridge Crown Court on 1 December.

Daniel Sandford
Home affairs correspondent, reporting from court

Anthony Williams, 32, is appearing at Peterborough Magistrates' Court.

He has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article following a stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

Williams has come into the dock in handcuffs, a grey sweatshirt and trousers.

Is knife crime rising or falling in the UK?published at 11:56 GMT

11:56 GMT

By Lucy Gilder

Earlier this morning, Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp was on BBC Radio 4's Today programme speaking about Saturday’s knife attack on a train bound for London.

He says "there is a very worrying trend of knife crime across the United Kingdom - last year approximately 250 people [were] killed using a knife, about 50,000 knife offences were recorded as well".

There is no single knife crime statistics publication in the UK but as far as England and Wales goes, police recorded 51,527 offences across both nations in the year to June 2025, according to the latest figures, external published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

However, these figures show knife crime is falling by 5% compared with the same period last year and 7% compared with five years ago. Homicides involving a knife also fell by nearly a fifth in the latest year to 196 offences, compared with 239 the year before.

Rozina Sini
BBC News

Warning: This post contains distressing detail

Zeb Golubows, 29, was on the train on carriage L, which was just two carriages away from the site of the knife attack in Cambridgeshire on Saturday night.

He tells the BBC he saw lots of people running down into his carriage shouting "he's got a knife". He stood up and began running with them.

"People were on the phone to the police and saying we need to stop the train," he continues.

"And then we saw we were headed into Huntington train station and people just sprinted off the train and started running."

After getting off the train, Golubows says he called his girlfriend and family. He says he also saw two of the injured people, and "blood everywhere".

One of those injured people called an ambulance, and then he saw "loads of police cars and ambulances already arriving".

"It was awful."

We can bring you more reaction now to the stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

“It’s shocking. It’s such a bolt out of the blue to have all this attention on the town," says David Landon Cole, who is the former mayor of Huntingdon. "There’s a real concern for everybody involved in the incident."

“There’s also a certain pride in how quickly the emergency services reacted," he tells Breakfast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

This is particularly true of the police response, he adds. "In a matter of minutes of the call, they’d made an arrest. I think their actions may have saved lives.”

The leader of Peterborough City Council, Shabina Qayyum, has shared her "complete admiration and appreciation" for those who have "worked tirelessly" to reduce the impact of this attack. She also hails the "swift and decisive action" of the train driver.

Posting on social media, Qayyum calls for "residents and communities to show the same strength that we have seen time and time again" and support those who are the most affected.

There have been several new developments following the stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday night. Here are some of the details

What we know

Anthony Williams, 32 and from Peterborough, is due to appear in court, charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following the knife attack.

He has been charged with an additional count of attempted murder in relation to a separate incident on London's DLR network in early hours of Saturday.

A train worker – hailed as a hero for protecting passengers on the train on Saturday night – is in "critical but stable" condition, the transport secretary told the BBC.

Eleven people were injured in that attack, five of whom are still in hospital.

There is increased police presence around major stations to reassure the public.

What we don't know

The names of the injured people, including the train worker.

The motivation for the attack. Police have said they are not considering the incident to be terror-related.

We have been hearing from several eyewitnesses who were onboard the train in Cambridgeshire when the stabbing attack happened on Saturday evening.

The moment Thomas McLachlan realised "something bad was happening" was when people started congregating in the compartment between the carriage he was in and the one in front, he told BBC Breakfast.

Thomas then says he heard the words: "He's been stabbed".

As he exited the train at Huntingdon station, Thomas says he saw passengers "absolutely drenched in blood" and adds "it was chaos".

A little while earlier, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the BBC that there would be an increased police presence around trains in the aftermath of the knife attack in Huntingdon on Saturday evening.

Armed officers and police dogs have been seen at Kings Cross Station and St Pancras International Station in central London this morning.

Image source, PA Media

Image source, PA Media

Image source, PA Media

The police say that Anthony Williams, 32, is also being charged with an additional 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.

It is understood that a victim suffered facial injuries after being attacked with a knife at Pontoon Dock station on London's DLR network at 00:46.

Williams was later identified as a suspect.

Here are a few more lines from the police, after 32-year-old Anthony Williams was charged with attempted murder and bodily harm.

He will appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court later this morning following the "major incident on a train Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening".