Train worker recalls repelling Huntingdon attacker with frying pan

In his video interview, he said: “My thinking was try to hit the knife, to drop his knife… to not let him pass, to not give up until the train stopped.”

He said he told a colleague: “I think I’m going to die.”

Passenger Michael Gawthorpe, who was not stabbed by Williams but was in the same carriage as Zitouni, said in a video-recorded interview that he “kept saying calm down, just put the knife down, please stop… we’ve all got kids”.

He said Williams said something along the lines of “they’re trying to kill me”.

He recalled someone had passed him a large toaster, so he threw it at the attacker, jurors heard.

But he said he remembered Williams then looking at him and he thought “that was pretty much it for me at this point”.

“I was pretty scared. I thought that was me done,” Gawthorpe said.

“I thought I’ve made a mistake here.”

However, the train began to slow down and he said this “may have distracted him”.

Another passenger, Christina Jones, wept in a video-recorded interview played to the jury as she demonstrated how she hid behind her handbag.

The court heard she threw a hot drink at Williams.