Overview
- At a pre‑trial hearing at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday, Williams pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wounding with intent and two counts of attempting to wound with intent, including offences linked to ten people injured on the LNER service from Doncaster to London King's Cross.
- The guilty pleas also cover a sequence of earlier incidents on October 31 and November 1, 2025, that courts say include affray at a Peterborough barbershop, theft of kitchen knives from an Asda in Stevenage, and possession of a blade at Pontoon Dock DLR station.
- Williams continues to deny 14 attempted murder charges, leaving those allegations for a full jury trial that is set to begin on October 26 and is expected to last about five weeks.
- The court record shows he admitted separate offences tied to the police response, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm to a constable on November 2 and an assault on an officer while in custody, and prosecutors said the guilty pleas do not resolve the indictment.
- Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC and Mr Justice Calver KC told the court that sentencing will be deferred until after the trial, a step that keeps the most serious legal questions and possible sentences dependent on the jury’s findings.