Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the mass stabbing on a London-bound train

Witnesses have described horrifying scenes of train passengers trampling over each other to escape a mass stabbing in the UK.

A 32-year British national is now the only suspect for the stabbing on a London-bound train, which police are not treating as a terror attack. 

One of the 11 victims - described by police as a hero who tried to intervene - remains in a critical condition.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the driver also moved quickly to get the train the in the right lane so police could intervene. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gavin Gray UK correspondence with us Elogevin.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hi there man alive?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What happened on the train?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, this was a really grim story from the weekend.
On a Saturday at night, a train going into London
and reaching its final destination of Peterborough and man got on,
no particular alarms being rang, and then about one hundred
kilometers to the north of London, that man started stabbing

(00:27):
people on the train no warning at all, a large
kitchen knife. Originally eleven people were injured. Thankfully only one
is still in hospital, but that man is said to
be an absolute hero who saved other passengers' lives by
trying to protect these train passengers and also the train
driver acting really really quickly, Heather, because the train was

(00:50):
on the fast lane as it were of the railway,
and that would have made it very very difficult to
stop where it was, which would have perhaps been the
inclination when he heard what was going on, But actually
he managed to ring control and say I need to
get on the slow track which goes by platforms, knowing
there was a stop coming up, and that meant that

(01:10):
the police and armed police could get to them very
very quickly. A suspect, a British black man from Peterborough,
a thirty two year old, is the only suspect. He's
been arrested. At the scene. Police say they recovered a
knife and those passengers on board said it was absolutely terrifying.
We still don't know the motive, but it looks like
this was not motivated by terrorism. That's what the police believe.

(01:34):
The Home sectary is expected to make a statement later today.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
So I saw the news that's come through just in
the last twenty four hours or so that Andrew has
Head sold a private tour of Buckingham Palace for like
three million New Zealand dollars while the Queen was in residence.
So it just seems that it's just the stuff does
not stop. Is there any indication that this is the
worst of it or is more to come? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I think more will be to come, particularly from the
Jeffrey Epstein friendship that he had, and that is because
the Epstein files are continuing to turn out new facts
as they are being investigated one by one, emails and
documents coming through. So in this particular incidence that you
talk about, this was a company called Pegasus Group Holdings.

(02:18):
It was run as a company that did investments, but
the brand ambassador was Sarah Ferguson and in other words,
Prince Andrew's ex wife reported to have a salary of
roughly three million New Zealand dollars for this crypto mining scheme,
but it later failed and closed within the year and

(02:40):
that lost investors many millions of pounds, and it is
reported that yes, it was all part of a deal
that she could be brand ambassador. But then there were
obviously allegations that other things were going on, and it
was then said that Prince Andrew then Prince Andrew arranged
for a tour of Buckingham Palace. One of the people
on the tour from Pegasu's Group Holdings said that they've

(03:03):
met the Queen. The other one was very quick to
say no, he didn't meet the Queen, but they were
meet and greeted at Buckingham Palace and given a tour.
And ultimately obviously that the thought that Prince Andrew is
selling access to both politicians but also potentially around the
palace is deeply, deeply concerning. More and more of this
stuff coming and it looks like as well, his final

(03:26):
royal his final services title is being taken away from
him as well. So yeah, a bit of a week
that's going to keep being filled with Prince Andrew headlines.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do you think, Kevin, that some of the stuff is
being leaked by the Royal family to justify the decisions
that they've taken.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I've heard of that theory. I don't because I think
there's actually enough out there at the moment to actually
well justify what they've done. If anything, the Royal family
standardcused did not acting faster. Prince William starts a major
royal trip today involving trying to push about the environment
and global warming, and it's just going to not receive

(04:10):
much headlines. It's going to be overshadowed by what's going on,
just as the kings praying with the Pope for the
first time in five hundred years was also overshadowed, and
I think that was one of the reasons they have
really decided to act this quickly.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Hi, thank you very much. Gevin has always appreciated Gavin Gray,
UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
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