The moment a hero passenger called 999 after confronting a knifeman on a train has been played to jurors who heard how the alleged stabber asked: ‘Do you want to die?’
Football fan Stephen Crean bravely offered assurance to fellow travellers on a train as Anthony Williams, 33, allegedly launched what prosecutors called a ‘rampage’ onboard the LNER service from Doncaster to London on November 1 last year.
In a police interview, Mr Crean also told of how he ‘went for the knife to stop him [Williams] because he’s on a mission’.
Mr Crean was stabbed several times in the head, upper and lower back,
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