A rider connected a bid wherever a wide stabbing took spot said helium initially thought determination mightiness person been a termination bomber, a tribunal has heard.
Milan Campion was travelling connected a London-bound LNER work connected 1 November past twelvemonth erstwhile it made an unscheduled halt astatine Huntingdon during an onslaught by Anthony Williams.
He said Williams was "threatening everyone indiscriminately" truthful helium "came to the decision that helium wasn't dependable of mind".
The 33-year-old, of Peterborough, denies 10 counts of attempted execution connected the train. He is besides charged with 4 different attempted murders pursuing earlier incidents successful Peterborough and London.
In a video interrogation played to jurors connected Monday, Campion said helium got connected the bid astatine Grantham, and galore of the passengers had been to the Nottingham Forest v Manchester United match.
The tribunal heard however Campion, who is not 1 of those Williams is accused of trying to kill, opened a toilet doorway to find Williams inside.
Campion said "he was conscionable sitting connected it staring astatine the ground" and it was "weird that helium hadn't locked the door".
He said aboriginal helium heard radical outcry "there's a feline with a knife" and determination was a "big concatenation of america moving down the aisle".
"I thought it mightiness person been a termination bomber truthful I request to get arsenic acold distant arsenic imaginable to maximise your accidental of endurance if it goes off."
Campion said Williams was "remonstrating with no-one successful particular" and was shouting thing helium could not understand.
"He conscionable looked angry, you could spot the choler successful his eyes," the witnesser said.
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