What's astounding to me, an American, is that my doing so in England could put me in prison for four years.
* blade length greater than 3 inches, and
* you lack any reasonable response as to why you are carry it, and
* this happens repeatedly.
Once all the above occurs, you might be charged, you then have the opportunity to present your case and defend your actions, but only if a prosecutor looks at the details of the charge and decides to carry it forward.
To be sent to prison for four years (maximum) you would have also used that knife in a clearly threatening way that cannot be explained away by your defence lawyer. Even so, that is still unlikely to be awarded the maximum sentence, actual lunging and swiping with intent would probably be required.
Many people carry knives in the UK - Chefs frequently carry knife sets to and from work, for example.
- Singapore: 5 years
- Belgium: 5 years
- Germany: 3 years
- Switzerland: 3 years
- Japan: 3 years
- France: 3 years
- UAE: 3 years
- Italy: 2 years
- Spain: 1 year
We are not alone
[1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-...
[2]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
My (mis-)understanding was that all knives were forbidden.
> I was on the Huntingdon train. I only know of one attacker, he got on the train from Peterborough. He was black mid 20’s
The Twitter poster has also been featured by major news outlets [0] [1]
[0] https://x.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1984873101646028883
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/nov/02/cambrid...
Here is some words directly from a Muslim man's mouth: https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1984565359190638978
And I’d be happy to glue that egg back together for you, except I’m still trying to figure out why you just smashed it all up in your own grill like that.
Based on prior comments this seems insincere.
> Just two random men, born in Britain, who went on a stabbing spree on a train for no reason at all.
At last learn to read a news report properly. One man, likely having an episode.
> Calm down, right?
I do hope you have, at last.
Leaping to (especially racist) conclusions isn’t helping anyone.
But, yeah, would-be Fascists jumping to “Islam probably” whenever there’s a crime in the UK has been happening lately… often in places like Doncaster.
As for "Jews Probably" show me a bunch of Jew lead terror attacks in germany that triggered WW2 - otherwise you're just calling everyone a nazi and a fascist again for no reason other than just trying not to be a "bad leftist".
Having undoubtedly spent way more time in Doncaster and on that specific train line than you, and having actually been in the UK with a functioning memory of events here, and having been a victim of the actually extremely small amount of violent crime here, I’m going to assume that this very centrist is much more well-informed on the matter than an actually and demonstrably racist individual engaging in overtly fascistic rhetoric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...
There are a bunch of thwarted attacks too, here's one where an Islamic person was planning to attack London's Pride parade:
https://news.sky.com/story/mohiussunnath-chowdhury-extremely...
Also, this might help people in the future:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4s4tkOWEAA2R3O?format=jpg&name=...
Islamophobe, probably.
greater chance it was a drunk and/or stoned white kid
They have not yet released the religion of the people. They may never do that either, they're under a spell there.
When an ignorant idiot says “it was probably A” and then someone who actually knows the area says “actually, that’s the thinking of someone who is either ignorant or an idiot, because there’s an equal or better chance it was B” that someone isn’t saying “it was definitely B”, they’re saying the ignorant idiot is an ignorant idiot for assuming A… there’s also a significantly better chance it was C, D, E, or in the case of Doncaster and Peterborough several more letters up to W… my point in its entirety is that it takes an ignorant idiot to assume it was A.
Especially when it was not, in fact, someone motivated by Islam (or even a misreading of Islam). When this is all said and done it will almost certainly have been motivated by either alcohol, drugs, mental illness, or straightforward injured male pride, just like almost every other violent event in this country.
In more ignorant and idiotic countries he’d have had a gun. I’m glad I’ve moved somewhere he only had a knife, and most (if not all) of the injured will pull through.