This is the moment a terrified raver tells the police he was almost stabbed by the man who went on to commit a mass stabbing on a train.
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who → tell → train
Anthony Williams, 33, is said to have 'posed a dangerous threat' as he stalked his victims 'through towns and cities, on streets and trains alike' during a series of violent Halloween weekend attacks last year.
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he → say → attacks
A teenage boy was stabbed which was the first of 14 assaults by Williams during the rampage that ended with ten attacks on a train.
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that → stab → train
In police bodycam footage, an officer patrolling around the rave is heard asking about the stabbing when panicked Dawid Taborski warned that Williams pulled out a ten-inch knife.
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Williams → patrol → knife
He said: 'He literally almost just got me, it's not a joke...
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it → say → me
Holding his hands wide apart Mr Taborski added: 'He's got a knife like this big.'
Williams is accused of attempted murder against him.
Cambridge Crown Court has heard that Williams admits 12 charges of wounding with intent and two of attempted wounding with intent but denies 14 counts of attempted murder.
This is the moment a terrified raver tells the police he was almost stabbed by the man who went on to commit a mass stabbing on a train
In bodycam footage, an officer patrolling around the rave is heard asking about the stabbing when panicked Dawid Taborski warned that he was nearly hurt
Anthony Williams pictured with a black rucksack where he is said to have kept the knife
Mr Taborski previously said in a video interview that he had been on his way to a rave when a man he had never seen before 'kept saying… "are you involved, are you involved?"'.
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you → hold → rave
He said he 'didn't know what he (Williams) was on about, I was really confused' and he initially thought it may have been 'a Halloween thing'.
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it → say → what
'As soon as he took that knife out I ran.
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I → take → knife
It happened so quickly,' he added.
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he → happen → ?
Detective Constable Ryan Burke said he was on high-visibility foot patrols when Mr Taborski approached him by Charters bar and told him 'someone had attempted to stab him but they hadn't been able to do so'.
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they → say → him
The officer said in a statement that Mr Taborski told him the man had 'brandished a long silver blade' and 'lunged attempting to stab him'.
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man → say → him
It comes after a 14-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by Anthony Williams on a footbridge over the River Nene in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
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boy → come → Peterborough
A court heard on Friday that he was staring at him with his ‘eyes wide open’ as he screamed ‘Are you involved, are you involved?’
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you → hear → him
The teenager was going trick or treating with a friend when Williams ‘just pulled out a knife and stabbed me’.
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Williams → go → me
The terrified pair ran away and hid in bushes where they remained until police arrived after they made a 999 call.
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they → run → call
The boy described in a police interview how he was with his friend on the evening of October 31 last year when ‘some random guy I’d literally never seen in my life just pulls out a knife and stabs me’.
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I → describe → me
Anthony Williams, 33, is seen in moving through the carriages on board the LNER train in footage shown to jurors
The ten-inch black knife was pulled from Williams’ waistband, he said, adding: ‘He was screaming something.
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He → see → something
My friend said it was something like “Are you involved, are you involved?” or something.
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you → say → ?
I don’t think he was well.
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he → think → ?
‘We just ran away.
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We → run → ?
Because I had so much adrenalin I only thought someone had poked me in the chest.
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someone → have → chest
‘We ran into some bushes.
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We → run → bushes
My friend was saying “Call the police, call the police”.
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friend → say → police
I was saying I think I’ve been stabbed.’
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I → say → ?
The boy told the interviewing officer that the force of the blow to his chest was ‘strong – it pushed me back a bit.
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it → tell → me
He was using his full force’.
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He → use → force
Williams is also accused of the attempted murder of William Ogelby.
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Williams → accuse → Ogelby
He told police he had been walking to a cashpoint to get money out when a man walking towards him said 'wagwan' to him, which he understood to be a greeting.
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he → tell → him
'I've said (it) back and he's pulled a knife out and tried to stab me three times in my stomach and once in my chest,' he said in a video interview played to jurors.
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he → say → jurors
He said he ran home 'as fast as my legs would carry me' and 'checked myself to see if I was bleeding – I wasn't bleeding'.
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I → say → myself
'I thought he was going to kill me,' he said.
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he → think → me
Jurors were shown a photo of Mr Ogelby wearing a jacket which had what prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC described as a 'knife cut' to it.
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KC → show → it
Jurors have been told of the terror – and moments of astonishing bravery – on display the following day as Williams marched through a succession of carriages on a Doncaster to London LNER service using a knife to attack people, leaving some with grievous injuries.
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Williams → tell → injuries
Williams is accused of attempting to murder 10 people on Doncaster to London LNER service and another four from the preceding day
LNER worker Samir Zitouni is seen wielding a frying pan as he attempts to stop train knifeman Anthony Williams
A number of brave passengers and a member of staff tried to stand up to him during the ‘storm of violence’.
Train worker Samir Zitouni attempted to stop him with a 'defensive blockade' of items including a frying pan and a toaster.
He then organised a group of ‘big, strong men’ before waving a pan at him but was subjected to an attack described as 'prolonged, persistent and brutal'.
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He → accuse → attack
Footage played in court from when the train eventually stopped showed him staggering down the platform in his blood-soaked shirt before falling against a carriage and down on to the tracks.
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him → play → tracks
His injuries from multiple wounds included partially collapsed lungs and an injured spleen.
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injuries → include → lungs
Football fan Stephen Crean bravely 'whispered to those in the café bar to shut the door and went towards the defendant' despite being unarmed, the court was told.
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court → whisper → defendant
Williams – who asked him ‘do you want to die?’ – stabbed him several times in the head, upper and lower back, fingers and hip during the 'one-sided' attack.
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you → ask → attack
Some on board the train spoke of the defendant rambling on about the ‘devil’ and ‘power’ and warning: ‘Everyone’s gonna die today.’
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Everyone → speak → devil
Car delivery driver Raza Aslam described how he saw the defendant had 'the greatest delight on his face, I saw his eyes expand with pleasure'.
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eyes → describe → pleasure
…and 15 more, not listed.
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