In a gripping scene captured on video, a train passenger was heard shouting, “It’s not me,” as police officers mistakenly tasered him, believing he was the Huntingdon knife attacker. The unfortunate incident unfolded in the midst of a tense situation involving a knife attack on the LNER service from Doncaster to King’s Cross, which left 11 individuals injured.
Initially, two British nationals were apprehended on suspicion of attempted murder following the chaotic event on Saturday night. However, one of the men, aged 35, has since been released with no charges, while a 32-year-old remains the sole suspect under investigation.
The dramatic footage reveals the innocent man’s ordeal as he walked along the train platform at Huntingdon, where the train had been redirected due to the emergency. Without warning, he was taken down by police using a taser, a move that left him stunned and pained.
Officers were heard shouting commands to “get down” as the man fell to the ground, visibly distressed. Despite his cries of “it’s not me,” he was swiftly handcuffed as he lay prone on the platform, highlighting the chaos and confusion in the aftermath of the attack.
Officers yell ‘get down, get down’ at the passenger before he suddenly falls to the ground, seemingly crying out in pain.
He then shouts, ‘it’s not me, it’s not me’ several times as he lies face-down on the ground and is put in handcuffs.
Police revealed 11 people were treated in hospital and one remained in a life-threatening condition on Sunday night.
Investigators at one point declared Code Plato, a word used by emergency services when responding to a ‘marauding terror attack’, but police on Sunday said there was ‘nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident’.
Footage shows the moment the innocent man walked down the train platform at Huntingdon moments before he was tasered
Officers yell ‘get down, get down’ at the man before he suddenly falls to the ground, seemingly crying out in pain
Other footage shows a knifeman in the moments immediately following the stabbings after the train stopped at Huntingdon.
He is filmed walking along a platform at the station, where the train was not scheduled to stop but was brought to an emergency halt as a result of the incident.
Blood-curdling screams are heard as the man dressed all in black with a black hat vaults a fence, after terrified passengers were seen sprinting down the platform to escape.
The video comes after updates on the ongoing investigation were provided by police, while there were pledges of ramped-up patrols across rail networks.
Dazed passengers were also filmed stumbling off a train clutching blood-stained cloth in striking footage obtained by the Mail – with confused victims looking around themselves asking ‘where are we’ while trundling suitcases off the platform.
Sirens can be heard blaring as the passenger holds a white rag to his head, with crimson-coloured blood seeping through.
He is assisted by another elderly passenger while one person can be heard shouting, ‘Is he okay?’.
An attendant cries, ‘Everyone out’, while the person filming says, ‘That’s mad’, as he records the injured gentleman walking away.
Terrified passengers were seen running along Huntingdon station’s platform 2 trying to escape on Saturday
Footage shows a knifeman carrying a blade while walking through a car park next to Huntingdon rail station in Cambridgeshire following Saturday night’s train stabbings
Witnesses have described the traumatic scenes – with passenger Olly Foster, who was in coach H, saying how he was listening to an audiobook when a man ‘suddenly ran past screaming, ‘Run! Run! There’s a guy stabbing literally everyone and everything’.
Mr Foster said he and some other travellers thought it was a ‘joke’ or a ‘Halloween prank’ at first but ‘quickly realised they were serious’ by the look on their face.
He explained how his hand was ‘covered in blood’ after he put it on a chair as he ran through the carriage.
‘There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from two of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me,’ he said.
‘A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead and I think another on his neck.’
Mr Foster and other horrified passengers ran to the end of the short train and queued up where he and a few others tried to find a weapon to defend themselves with.
