This is the moment a man believed to be the Huntingdon train attack suspect stormed into a Peterborough barber shop with a knife – as police investigate whether he stabbed a 14-year-old boy minutes before.
Anthony Williams, 32, of Peterborough, appeared at Peterborough magistrates’ court today charged with 11 counts of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack on board an LNER train and another in east London on November 1.
CCTV footage exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail allegedly shows a man believed to be Williams entering Ritzy Barbers, in Fletton, Peterborough, on Friday evening at 7.14pm – minutes after police were called to the stabbing of a 14-year-old in the city centre.
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Barber shop staff then called police around 90 minutes after he left – but Cambridgeshire Constabulary did not send officers, instead asking the shop to upload CCTV online.
Barber Cody Greene, 23, told the Daily Mail the same man returned to the shop at 9.25am on Saturday November 1. Police were called again, but by the time they arrived the man had left.
This happened around 10 hours before prosecutors allege Anthony Williams began his train rampage, and more than eight hours after the 32-year-old allegedly stabbed a man at a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in the capital early that morning.
Police have today launched a probe to establish whether the three incidents in the city before the alleged rampage are linked – and are facing accusations that they could have thwarted the attack had they acted quicker.
‘Even though we called the police, I feel guilty because it could have been prevented if action had been taken,’ Mr Greene said.
‘They have cameras everywhere, they [the police] have seen what this guy looks like. He has then walked past this shop again. It [the train attack] definitely could have been prevented.’
Cambridgeshire Constabulary says it is ‘aware’ of the incidents and is reviewing others around the same time to understand if other offences were committed. The Home Secretary vowed today that questions about the attack ‘will be answered’.
Footage reviewed by the Daily Mail shows the man outside Ritzy at around 7.14pm on October 31. Workers said he was mumbling ‘It was feds, it was feds’ to himself before attempting to walk inside and sit down.
He was asked to leave, but returned a short time later with a plastic bag, appearing to turn his face away from the road as a police car drives past.
At 7.25pm, he starts to rub his face, takes a sip of a drink and yells, ‘f*** your mum’ and ‘liars’, as he suddenly brandishes the knife and walks inside.
In terrifying scenes the man, dressed in black with his hood up, then waved the implement about as customers ran to the back of the shop.
One customer was said to have been so frightened he barricaded himself into a kitchen at the back of the shop and began to pray.
Staff say he then demanded to know why customers had been laughing at him. ‘I’m going to allow you lot today’, he is then alleged to have said, before leaving the shop at the behest of staff.
Barber Mr Greene, 23, added: ‘I looked in the mirror on my side and I’ve seen him go with the knife in his hand, about to open the door.
‘At that moment, the only thing I’m thinking is “I’ve got to protect myself and my client”, so I tried to grab my client – all it takes is one or two steps and he could have cut my client’s neck.
‘Everyone started to see what’s going on and moved backwards and it was just so quiet, the only thing we could hear was him.
‘I could hear him saying “you’re laughing at me?” and “suck your mum” and “I’m going to catch a case today” and “you’re drawing me out” – he was speaking for like 20 to 30 seconds.
‘Then he said “I’m going to allow you lot to today” – when I heard that I started counting my graces. One of the clients locked themselves in the kitchen, he was really distressed and we couldn’t actually get in there.’
He added of the man he was confronted with: ‘It seemed like the lights were on but no-one’s home. You looked at him and you knew straight away, it was a red flag.’
When the management of the barber’s shop phoned the police that night, they were told no officers would be deployed and they were instead asked to upload their CCTV to an online portal.
Just minutes before, police had been alerted to another incident in which a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in Peterborough city centre.
Police say the teenager was taken to Peterborough City Hospital with minor injuries and later discharged.
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