What We Know So Far About The Doncaster-London Train Attack
Newscast
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, Alex joins Laura to discuss what we know about a stabbing attack that took place on board a Doncaster-London train on Saturday evening.
The police have said "there's nothing to suggest" it was a terrorist incident. Two British nationals are being held in custody on suspicion of murder.
Plus we continue yesterday’s conversation about politicians weighing into royal affairs, as the Defence Secretary, John Healey, tells Laura that the King wants Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to lose his military titles.
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| 0:23.2 | We're recording this at 11 o'clock |
| 0:25.1 | when we have just had an update |
| 0:27.4 | from the British Transport Police |
| 0:29.0 | after a terrible attack |
| 0:31.1 | on the 625 Doncaster to London, Kings Cross. |
| 0:35.6 | British Transport Police declared a major incident yesterday. |
| 0:39.7 | Encounter terrorism policing were initially supporting our investigation. |
| 0:44.1 | However, at this stage, there is nothing to suggest that this is a terrorist incident. |
| 0:51.2 | This is a British Transport Police investigation, |
| 0:53.5 | and we continue to work to establish at pace the full circumstances and the motivations that have led to this incident. |
| 1:02.0 | At this early stage it would not be appropriate to speculate on the cause of this incident. |
| 1:08.8 | Obviously, I can't even begin to think what it must have been like for the people |
| 1:12.0 | on that train. And immediately the news started to come through. You know, we had some eyewitness accounts |
| 1:18.0 | of just how awful it was, the politician saying how horrific. But what a lot of people were trying |
| 1:22.0 | to fathom was the motive and what happened here. And I think the critical bits we heard from |
| 1:26.8 | that press conference were this really. Firstly, think the critical bits we heard from that press conference |
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