Huntingdon train knife rampage suspect ‘slashed man in the face’ a MONTH ago – as police re-open investigation they closed by text after just 48 hours
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15262047/Huntingdon-train-knife-rampage-suspect-slashed-man-face-MONTH-ago-police-open-investigation-closed-text-just-48-hours.html
Posted by JB_UK
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It’s not clear if this person is the same person, although it seems likely. But it really is crazy that a number of incidents seem to have happened before with the police doing almost nothing to investigate. The same guy came into a barber shop and brandished a knife, and then separately stabbed someone, days before the attack.
What on earth is going on with the police if they treat incidents like this with such minimal effort.
I’m sorry but regardless of if this is the same guy as the train incident, the idea that someone can be slashed in the face at random and need 15 stitches and the police just go ‘oh well’ after 48 hours is astonishing to me.
That’s..like.. a proper crime; real injury and something that any fool can see could escalate into much worse crimes. This isn’t ‘benefit of hindsight’ stuff, this is really obvious.
Oh, but they ‘raised a crime’ and it’s ok.
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I don’t think people realise how bad things are and how much worse they are to come. Being violently attacked with little police intervention has become normalised in 2025 – imagine 2035, 2045.
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But remember they had to take Tommy Robinson to court for not unlocking his phone.
give the police a break, it was only a minor crime, it wasn’t something hardcore like: attending a modified car ‘cruise’, posting hurty words on twitter, being an 80 year old protestor wearing a ‘plasticine action’ t-shirt, smoking a joint, shouting something a king charles and other such heinous crimes.
To much time spent working on petty crime or even aren’t crime at all.
The public want to you get your priorities sorted!
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I am sure that this will get voted down. However, I think a bit of balance is required. Police resources are very stretched. This is a case where the victim’s injuries were not very severe (eg not life-threatening), there was no prior link between perpetrator and victim, no good ID of the perpetrator (it was dark), no useful CCTV recording and no forensic evidence. How, exactly, were the police supposed to proceed when there was no ID and no other leads? How many more police hours should have been given to the investigation and what, exactly, would those hours have been spent doing? How many other better-evidenced cases should have been sidelined to make time for what was likely (at that time) to be a futile effort? However, the police NOW HAVE A LEAD, which is why they have re-opened the case. They now know that Anthony Williams from Peterborough (where this attack occurred) has recently attacked strangers with a knife – this now gives them a basis for further investigation to see if he was in that area at the time of the attack and possible placed at the scene. The bottom line is the police need evidence or a strong possibility of getting evidence in order to justify committing further time to an investigation.
police don’t even bother trying to find witnesses or cctv nowadays unless you literally bring all the evidence to them they just go through the motions tick the boxes and move on to the next thing