Humanity prevails amid unimaginable atrocities

EVEN in the immediate aftermath of Saturday night’s appalling Huntingdon train stabbing, with the full picture far from clear, it was obvious that many of those on board the 18:25 LNER Doncaster to London service had acted with extreme courage in the face of abject horror.

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From the heroic member of LNER staff, now fighting for his life, whose actions “undoubtedly saved many people’s lives”, to an older man who “blocked” the attacker from getting to a young girl, suffering injuries to his own head and neck, to the Nottingham Forest fan who tried to confront the knifem