Man 'defended himself with his fists' during mass stabbing on train

Man 'defended himself with his fists' during mass stabbing on train View 3 Images

Stephen Crean, one of the victims of the mass stabbing on a busy train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday, said he “didn’t have much choice” but to fight back, as he recalls defending himself with nothing but his fists. Mr Crean, 61, told the PA news agency that he was returning home from watching Nottingham Forest draw 2-2 with Manchester United, when a young woman ran through his train carriage yelling “knife, knife, there’s a man with a big knife”.

Mr Crean said passengers ran down the carriage into the buffet car, adding: “There was nowhere to go. I didn’t have much choice.”

He said the alleged knifeman asked if he wanted to die before he felt the knife in his arm. “He asked me, ‘Do you want to die?’,” he