{"id":321720,"date":"2025-12-17T22:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321720\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:20:06","slug":"king-greets-men-who-showed-bravery-during-huntingdon-train-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321720\/","title":{"rendered":"King greets men who showed bravery during Huntingdon train knife attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was much praise for the response of passengers and train crews during the incident on the service between Doncaster and London King&#8217;s Cross on a Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Parliament, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood paid tribute to the &#8220;breathtaking bravery&#8221; of those who had helped, including the &#8220;heroic acts of the passengers and train crew who intercepted the attacker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MPs had called for the highest civilian medal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gw2kdzlwro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the George Cross<\/a>, to be awarded to those who had shown great bravery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King Charles gave his own recognition with an audience at the Palace, where he posed for photographs with the visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included Andrew Johnson, the train driver who was praised by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander for diverting the train from the fast to the slow track after the alarm was raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A short hearing in the case against Mr Williams was adjourned at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this month and proceedings are due to resume on 28 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was much praise for the response of passengers and train crews during the incident on the service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-321720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}