Storming of barber shop and stabbing of youth part of inquiry

THREE opportunities may have been missed to stop an alleged knifeman in the 24 hours before a blood-soaked train rampage.

- PAUL JEEVES Crime Editor

Police received 999 calls about three separate incidents before a man with a knife attacked passengers on an East Coast mainline train bound for London.

Anthony Williams, 32, appeared in court yesterday charged with 11 counts of attempted murder.

It has emerged that the evening before Saturday's train attack a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in Peterborough, Cambs.

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Around 15 minutes later a man believed to be Williams entered a nearby barber's wielding a knife. The same man returned to the salon the morning after, again brandishing a large knife.

Williams was yesterday remanded into custody after being charged in relation to the attack on passengers and staff on the Doncaster to King's Cross train on Saturday evening, and another attack on a teenage boy earlier in the day on the Docklands Light Railway in East London.