Nov. 4 (UPI) -- British police investigating a mass stabbing on board a train that put 11 people in the hospital were looking for links between a man charged in the attack and three other knife crimes in the hours beforehand, including an attack on a 14-year-old boy.
The boy was stabbed in the center of Peterborough on Friday night while a barbershop in the city made two 911 calls reporting a man wielding a large knife at the premises, first on Friday and again on Saturday morning when the knifeman returned.
The revelations have led to questions over whether Saturday night's stabbing rampage aboard a high-speed London-bound train could have been prevented if 32-year-old Anthony Williams, the alleged attacker, had been stopped sooner.
Williams appeared before Peterborough Magistrates Court on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and a separate attempted murder count related to a knife attack on a train in London in the early hours of Saturday.
He did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on Dec. 1.
