PASSENGER TELLS COURT HUNTINGDON TRAIN STABBING FELT LIKE ELECTRIC SHOCK

Video testimony from a passenger stabbed in the Huntingdon train attack was played on Wednesday to a jury at Cambridge Crown Court, where Anthony Williams is on trial for 14 counts of attempted murder. Jonathan Gjoshe told police the first knife wound felt "like an electric shock". He said he thought he recognised Williams, dressed in black, after locking eyes with him in coach J of the LNER service from Doncaster to London on 1 November last year. "It was the way he's stabbed me; it was a bit weird because it was slow, it was not rapid," Gjoshe said.

Gjoshe said Williams did not make eye contact as he struck, instead staring at his shoulder with, in his words, "a pure straight face, no emotion". He screamed, and his phone went flying, as adrenaline "kicked in". He sustained six knife wounds, one coming within 5mm of a nerve, but could not recall most of them. Gjoshe described the attack as "like a movie" and "quite horrific", and fled down the carriage covered in blood, warning passengers to run. In hospital he asked medical staff, "Am I going to die today?"

The jury also heard video evidence from another passenger, Sachin Balakrishnan, trapped in an aisle seat. He recalled hearing screams, seeing a tall man waving a "big knife", and being struck in his side and arm. "This guy was running behind me, there was nowhere to go, nowhere was safe," Balakrishnan said, adding that he only realised he had been stabbed when he saw exposed flesh and a blood-soaked t-shirt. Gjoshe's testimony was the first passenger account heard, and Williams' trial continues at Cambridge Crown Court.