A man accused of a mass stabbing on an LNER train in Huntingdon last month and separate attacks over the previous 48 hours, could face a trial next year.
Anthony Williams, 32, is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a knife over the alleged attack on a LNER train from Doncaster to London on 1 November.
Williams, refused to attend Monday’s hearing at Cambridge Crown Court, and has yet to enter pleas. But the judge has set a provisional trial date in June.
He is charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm over an alleged attack on a male police officer in custody.
Williams also faces another count of attempted murder and one count of possession of a knife over a separate incident at Pontoon Dock Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station, in east London, earlier on 1 November.
At Monday’s hearing, held in Williams’ absence, the case was joined with seven further charges, bringing the total number of charges to 21.
Williams, who said at an earlier hearing that he is of no fixed abode, had also failed to attend a hearing at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on 19 November over the seven additional charges.
The seven charges relate to the following incidents in the 24 hours leading up to the train stabbings:
• Attempted murders of a 14-year-old boy at Henry Penn Walk, Peterborough, on 31 October.
• Attempted murder of a 22-year-old man near Pleasure Fair Meadow Road, Peterborough, on 31 October.
• Attempted wounding of a 28-year-old man at Viersen Platz, Peterborough, on 31 October.
• Affray at a barbershop in Peterborough on 31 October.
• Possession of a knife in a public place at a footbridge near Henry Penn Walk, the Rail World car park and Queen’s Walk, all in Peterborough on 31 October.
• Theft of knives from Asda supermarket in Stevenage on 31 October.
• Assault of a 31-year-old man onboard a train travelling from King’s Cross to Peterborough on 1 November.
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Judge Mark Bishop said a further hearing will take place at Cambridge Crown Court on 28 January, with a provisional trial date set for 22 June.
Williams remains in custody.
