BBC Breakfast was interrupted on Tuesday morning as a guest shared a heartbreaking confession.
A BBC Breakfast guest admitted “I don’t want to die” in a devastating news update on Tuesday.
On today’s episode of the popular morning show, presenters Sally Nugent and Jon Kay kept viewers up-to-date with the latest happenings from across the UK and globally.
They were accompanied in the studio by John Watson, who took care of the sports segment, while Carol Kirkwood provided regular weather forecasts.
At the beginning of the programme, Sally and Jon relayed an update following the horrific train attack that occurred over the weekend.
Passengers journeying from Doncaster to London were victims of a mass stabbing incident on a train on Saturday night (November 1), reports the Express.
BBC Breakfast was halted for heartbreaking news on Tuesday(Image: BBC)
Eleven individuals were hospitalised after the attack. One – a member of the train staff – is in a “critical but stable condition”.
On today’s BBC Breakfast, Jon confirmed: ” Cambridgeshire police are investigating whether three knife-related incidents in Peterborough on Friday and Saturday are linked to the attacks on a train, in which ten people were stabbed.”
Sally chimed in: “32-year-old Anthony Williams appeared in court, charged with eleven counts of attempted murder, including a separate knife attack at a station in East London in the early hours of Saturday morning.”
In a pre-recorded interview, survivor Stephen Crean looked back on the harrowing incident. The Nottingham Forest FC fan sustained serious wounds to his head and hand after he challenged the knifeman on the train, coming face-to-face with him.
“He’s pulled out this great, big, oversized blade and he started waving it about,” Stephen revealed.
Stephen Crean was injured in the train attack at the weekend(Image: BBC)
“[The attacker] said, ‘Do you want to die?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t want to die’. He said I.T. about three times. He started swinging and I grabbed his arm, and that’s when my fingers are being quite [injured] – not a pretty sight. But then he caught me on the head and stuff like that.”
Explaining why he chose to tackle the attacker, Stephen continued: “I don’t think I had much choice. I didn’t hear [people] going into the buffet cart. It wasn’t until I heard they were safe that I turned around, and I was still making sure he’s not making it past. I don’t want him to get past.
“It was one on one, basically, at that stage, just me and him, no one else. Eventually, after that little tussle with him, I got past him.. He tried to get in the buffet cart. It was great that he didn’t get in there. I locked the door, and there was a puddle of blood.”
Stephen has since been sent grateful messages from fellow travellers, adding: “That was lovely. It was quite emotional because I didn’t know what I’d done. I didn’t have a clue, and that hit home then.”
