Overview
- Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said scanners are impractical across thousands of multi-entrance stations and promised short-term surges in British Transport Police patrols.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told MPs there is no evidence of a terrorism link and that the suspect was not known to security services or Prevent.
- Anthony Williams, 32, appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder linked to the LNER attack near Huntingdon and a separate DLR incident.
- The government plans a consultation on a legal framework for live facial recognition and is funding improved station CCTV with remote access for BTP.
- Unions and experts cite soaring rail assaults and BTP funding pressures to press for sustained on-train presence, staffing reviews, and bleed-control kits on all trains.