Dramatic footage shows the moment a train passenger screamed ‘it’s not me’ as he was tasered by police officers who mistook him for the Huntingdon knife attacker.
Two suspects, both British nationals, were initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on Saturday night after 11 victims were injured by a knifeman on the LNER service from Doncaster to King’s Cross.
One 35-year-old man has since been released with no further action and a 32-year-old man is being treated as the only suspect.
Shocking footage shows the innocent man walking down the train platform at Huntingdon – where the train driver was forced to make a diversion – only to be struck down by police with a taser.
Officers yell ‘get down, get down’ at the passenger before he suddenly falls to the ground, seemingly crying out in pain.
He then shouts, ‘it’s not me, it’s not me’ several times as he lies face-down on the ground and is put in handcuffs.
Police revealed 11 people were treated in hospital and one remained in a life-threatening condition on Sunday night.
Investigators at one point declared Code Plato, a word used by emergency services when responding to a ‘marauding terror attack’, but police on Sunday said there was ‘nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident’.
Footage shows the moment the innocent man walked down the train platform at Huntingdon moments before he was tasered
Officers yell ‘get down, get down’ at the man before he suddenly falls to the ground, seemingly crying out in pain
Other footage shows a knifeman in the moments immediately following the stabbings after the train stopped at Huntingdon.
He is filmed walking along a platform at the station, where the train was not scheduled to stop but was brought to an emergency halt as a result of the incident.
Blood-curdling screams are heard as the man dressed all in black with a black hat vaults a fence, after terrified passengers were seen sprinting down the platform to escape.
The video comes after updates on the ongoing investigation were provided by police, while there were pledges of ramped-up patrols across rail networks.
Dazed passengers were also filmed stumbling off a train clutching blood-stained cloth in striking footage obtained by the Mail – with confused victims looking around themselves asking ‘where are we’ while trundling suitcases off the platform.
Sirens can be heard blaring as the passenger holds a white rag to his head, with crimson-coloured blood seeping through.
He is assisted by another elderly passenger while one person can be heard shouting, ‘Is he okay?’.
An attendant cries, ‘Everyone out’, while the person filming says, ‘That’s mad’, as he records the injured gentleman walking away.
Terrified passengers were seen running along Huntingdon station’s platform 2 trying to escape on Saturday
Footage shows a knifeman carrying a blade while walking through a car park next to Huntingdon rail station in Cambridgeshire following Saturday night’s train stabbings
Witnesses have described the traumatic scenes – with passenger Olly Foster, who was in coach H, saying how he was listening to an audiobook when a man ‘suddenly ran past screaming, ‘Run! Run! There’s a guy stabbing literally everyone and everything’.
Mr Foster said he and some other travellers thought it was a ‘joke’ or a ‘Halloween prank’ at first but ‘quickly realised they were serious’ by the look on their face.
He explained how his hand was ‘covered in blood’ after he put it on a chair as he ran through the carriage.
‘There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from two of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me,’ he said.
‘A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead and I think another on his neck.’
Mr Foster and other horrified passengers ran to the end of the short train and queued up where he and a few others tried to find a weapon to defend themselves with.
