Transparency in the Shadows: Unpacking the Delay in Revealing Suspect Details After the Huntingdon Train Stabbings, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

Let's consider the knife attacks on a train near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on November 1, 2025. With ten people hospitalised, two in life-threatening condition, and arrests made, the focus has shifted to why it took the British Transport Police (BTP) until Sunday morning to disclose the ethnic backgrounds of the suspects. Critics, including Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, argued for quicker transparency to quash online rumours.

The attacks unfolded around 7:42 PM on Saturday aboard a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train from Doncaster to London King's Cross. Witnesses described chaos: a man allegedly wielding a knife, passengers screaming, and heroic intervention by an LNER staff member who tried to subdue the attacker. Police responded swiftly, arresting two men at the scene, a 32-year-old and a 35-year-old, using a Taser on one. By Sunday evening, however, the BTP confirmed the 35-year-old had been released and eliminated from inquiries, leaving the 32-year-old as the sole suspect. No charges have been filed yet, and the incident is not being treated as terrorism.

The disclosure came on Sunday morning: the 32-year-old is described as a black British national, and the 35-year-old (since released) as a British national of Caribbean descent. This followed mounting criticism, with Philp telling The Telegraph that details should have been released sooner, as in other cases, and Farage posting on Xthat "we need to know who committed these awful attacks as soon as possible."

Online, speculation ran wild overnight, with accounts spreading unverified claims, such as the attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar." One X post captured the sentiment: "The Huntingdon train stabbing shows the problem clearly. Police delay the suspect's identity and ethnicity. If the attacker were white, we'd already know everything." Critics argue this delay fuels uncertainty and allows misinformation to flourish, exactly what happened in past incidents like the Southport stabbings, which led to riots.

At the heart of the debate is whether the police handle cases involving "diverse" suspects, often a coded term for ethnic minorities, differently. Some claim it's a deliberate cover-up to avoid inflaming racial tensions or fitting certain narratives.

UK police operate under strict guidelines. Suspect details like names, ethnicities, or nationalities are typically withheld early in investigations to protect the presumption of innocence, avoid prejudicing trials, and safeguard victims or witnesses. The College of Policing advises that information should only be released if it serves a policing purpose, such as seeking public help or preventing harm. Ethnicity isn't routinely disclosed unless relevant to the crime or public interest.

However, recent events have shifted this. After the Southport incident in July 2024, where delayed details about the suspect's background fuelledriots, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) issued new guidance in August 2025. This encourages faster release of facts to combat misinformation, especially on social media. As former chief superintendent Dal Babu put it: "Race is being amplified by far-right racist groups and the police are being forced to respond… They are under pressure because there is such intense speculation from the far right on social media after every major incident about the background of suspects." Yes, and most of the time they are right!

In the Huntingdon case, the BTP's disclosure seems directly tied to this guidance. They released ethnic details not to hide anything, but to "counter far-right speculation and misinformation." Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty echoed this: "The police have to get that information out there so that we're dealing with facts and normal speculation." Even Sadiq Khan, London's mayor, stressed that operational decisions should rest with police, not politicians. Yes, but the issue is the police taking their sweet time.

Is there bias? Of course there is. Nothing shows this clearer than the denial by the authorities that this stabbing was not terrorism; protect the multicult at any cost, as with the grooming gangs. As noted below at Focal Points.com, what could be more an act of terrorism than the mass stabbings?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/02/huntingdon-train-knife-attacks-british-transport-police/

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mass-stabbing-on-uk-train-casts-spotlight

"The fantastically moronic British government is going out of its way to claim that the mass stabbing incident on the London-bound train is not an act of terror. Few things strike me as more terrifying than two young men rampaging with knives on a train. As one witness statement was reported in Telegraph:

The train attacker looked "dead behind the eyes" and "possessed," an eyewitness has said.

The man in his twenties, who wished to remain anonymous, was travelling back from the Nottingham Forest football match. He was listening to music with noise cancelling headphones when other passengers began running through the train.

He told the Daily Express: "At first I thought it was Halloween, is this some sort of joke? Is it a prank? And that's when I realised how panicked they looked, and then I saw someone who was covered in blood.

"I thought, f--- me, what's going on here? I quickly realised I needed to get out of there… just joined them moving through the train.

"Someone was [at] first worried there was a gun, someone said 'oh there's a guy we think he's got a gun', but that wasn't the case.

"We weren't able to move super rapidly because there were quite a few of us and there was at least one person in our group of people moving through the train who had been stabbed.

"We looked back and I could see this tall Black male, early 30s… he looked dead behind the eyes, and he was moving towards us, chasing us with what looked like a kitchen knife. It was bloodied and he was moving through the carriages."

"He wasn't running towards us, but he was walking with intent, it was quite a spooky walk. He almost looked possessed.

"The most horrifying thing at the time was that we were obviously on a moving vehicle, and we didn't know how long we were going to be stuck on there.

"The scarier bit was that we were walking through the train away from this guy, but we didn't know how many carriages we could keep going through before we reached the back end of the train."

I propose that the true terrorists are not the lunatic and probably drug-addled young men who perpetrated the attack, but the British government for doing such an abominable job of managing the nation's affairs. Since 2021, the British government has allowed far more immigrants to enter the small island nation than its economy can possibly absorb. Note that this coincided with the government's draconian COVID-19 lockdowns."