A MAN accused of a stabbing spree on a train appeared in court yesterday as police revealed their investigation will also include the stabbing of the 14-year-old and two reports of a knifeman seen at a barber’s in Peterborough a day earlier.

Anthony Williams, 32, appeared at Peterborough magistrates’ court charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article on an LNER train from Doncaster to London on Saturday.

An LNER staff member is in a critical but stable condition in hospital following the stabbings on the high-speed service shortly after it left Peterborough, while four other people remain in hospital.

Mr Williams, of no fixed abode, is separately charged with one count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article over an incident at Pontoon Dock DLR station in London in the early hours of Saturday, where a victim suffered facial injuries from a knife.

Passengers pulled the emergency alarms on the LNER service and it was diverted to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Prosecutor Olaide Esan said he allegedly attacked a male police officer in custody after being arrested, leaving him with a “broken nose.”

It is understood he is not known to the security services or counter-terrorism policing, and had not been referred to the government anti-extremism scheme Prevent.

Mr Williams was remanded into custody to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on December 1.

Cambridgeshire police said the 14-year-old was non-fatally injured at 7.10pm on Friday, before a man with a knife was seen at a barber’s in Fletton 15 minutes later, although this was only reported to police two hours later.