Woman pleads for life during Cambridgeshire train attack

A woman pleads with an alleged huntingdon attacker on a train, telling her “Please don’t” as he lunges at her with a knife.

Dayna Arnold, 48, from Bridlington said she was lying in the carriage when the man stopped the attack with his words.

He walks off the train as he speaks, before returning to him and saying “The Devil won’t win anymore.

Ms Arnold caught the train with her partner Andy Gray in Pethborough on Saturday night and he was just sitting at the front of our carriage”.

“We both looked over the seats in front of us and we saw a bunch of people get out of their seats and then a lot of screaming voices and they were heading our way.”

He said that his partner was lost in the thrifty crowd, but he was saved from his seat when his bag was caught on the table.

After freeing himself he lowered the carriage only to be pushed seat by seat by the squeamish passengers.

He told the BBC to look North he saw the alleged attacker coming.

“So I just decided to slide on the floor and after a while he was ahead of me,” he said.

He added: “He was right there with me and he had a knife and he pulled it out on me, but I put my arm like this and I said, ‘Please don’t’

“Something moved his face and his eyes and he took out the knife.”

Ms Arnold said the man returned several times later “he just looked at me and he said, ‘The devil doesn’t win’.”

He said his partner helped one of the injured passengers by using his belt as a tourniquet.

The couple had trouble sleeping after the incident.

“I’m so relieved and blessed that Andy and I are okay and hope everyone is injured and affected by this scary recovery,” she said.

Eleven people were injured in the incident on Saturday night on a Doncaster on the London Lner training in Cambridgeshire.

Anthony Williams, 32, of the homeless shelter, was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and remanded in custody.

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