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The British-born suspect is still being questioned by police this morning over the 14-minute stabbing spree, which left 11 people with injuries requiring hospital treatment.
One “brave” train worker remained in a life-threatening condition after attempting to stop the knifeman, while the driver was praised for diverting the service into an emergency stop at Huntingdon station.
Both were hailed heroes for saving the lives of passengers.
The Telegraph can reveal that the driver was Andrew Johnson, 55, a Royal Navy and Iraq War veteran from Peterborough.
At 7.30pm on Saturday, an hour and five minutes after the LNER service left Doncaster station for King’s Cross, London, with Mr Johnson in the driver’s seat, the knifeman began stabbing passengers at random.
The train’s next scheduled stop was Stevenage, more than half an hour later. %20-%200311%20Stabbings%20train%20map.jpg) | | The journey made by the LNER train on the night of the stabbings | As passengers began banging on the driver’s door and yelling that people were being stabbed, Mr Johnson had just seconds to act.
He retained his composure and diverted the train from its inner rail track to nearby Huntingdon station’s platform-side rail.
His actions probably saved numerous lives, firstly because the knifeman had less time to carry out his rampage, and secondly because it allowed paramedics to provide life-saving care to the victims in the crucial minutes after the attack.
“I was only doing my job,” Mr Johnson said. “It was my colleague, who is in hospital, who was the brave one.”
Mr Johnson, who has been working as a train driver since 2018, is understood to have served in the Royal Navy for 17 years and was deployed to Iraq in 2003 during the second Gulf War.
He still regularly supports his former servicemen and was fundraising for the Royal British Legion in his local Waitrose just days before Saturday’s attack.
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There was much debate last week about the state of the Church, with congregation numbers decreasing across the country. The reasons – social, spiritual and philosophical – are many and varied, but Simon Funnell may have hit on a simpler explanation: “[It’s] the length of the sermons. Too few preachers know when to stop.”
Amen to that, came the response. If only these prolix priests had received the same memo as Audrey Beach's father: “When he trained for the Anglican ministry in the 1930s at Ely Theological College (now defunct), he was given this excellent piece of advice about sermon length: ‘If you can’t strike oil in five minutes, stop boring.’ He stuck to this all his life, and had few complaints.”
Anthony Cobbold added: “The organist at Marlborough College had the answer. He warned the preacher that, after 20 minutes of sermonising, he would play the introduction to the next hymn. It never failed.”
William McBride, a former parish organist and choirmaster in Enniskillen, recalled the arrival of a new priest: “He laid down his personal mantra for music and sermons. On music, he said: ‘When you presume to tell me what to preach, I will presume to tell you what to play.’ On sermons, he believed that: ‘If you cannot say it in seven minutes, it is not worth saying.’ He was a very popular rector, especially with those parishioners who had Sunday roasts in the oven.”
Of course, this advice doesn’t just apply to sermons. We all have our own lists of people who’d benefit from it. I’m also reminded of a story about the jazz titans Miles Davis and John Coltrane. When Coltrane, whose saxophone solos were getting longer and longer, admitted to his bandleader that he struggled to know when to stop, Davis replied: “Try taking the horn out of your mouth.” More matter with less art: a line to live by? Send your (beautifully succinct) replies here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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