UK train attack survivor reveals stabber’s chilling response after she begged for her life

A survivor of the UK train mass stabbing has described how she begged for her life, and the madman attacker told her, “The devil’s not going to win.”

Dayna Arnold was in the same train car as the attacker when he began slashing at “anyone he could find” during horrific scenes on board a London-bound train in the east of England just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

“I was going with the crowd but then I got knocked into some seats. I looked back and saw the knifeman running, so I slid down to the floor,” Arnold, 48, told the Sun.

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She added: “He came at me with the knife and I begged, ‘Please don’t.’ Then something shifted in his face and he just carried on. I feel very fortunate to still be alive.”

Arnold, who was on board the train with friend Andy Gray, 37, recalled the attacker’s sinister words as he spared her amid the mass slashing that left 11 people wounded, two of whom are still fighting for their lives.

“Then a minute or so later he came back through, looked at me again and said, ‘The devil’s not going to win,’ and continued on,” she said.

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“I was waiting because I could still hear him in the carriage. I heard the doors open and ran off the train. I saw him take off running and then minutes later, police rushed past me and I saw him get tasered,” Arnold said.

One 32-year-old British man is in custody for attempted murder following the attack, which saw armed cops scramble to the small market town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

A second man was detained, but later released without charge. 

Arnold described the suspect as “quite tall with dark-colored skin” and wearing dark clothing and a hat over shoulder-length braided hair.

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Her friend, Grey, used his belt as a makeshift tourniquet to help a young man bleeding following the attack.

“A young lad there was only 19 or 20 and had been cut and stabbed really badly. He had a gash on his arm and had several puncture wounds under his arm,” Grey told the Sun.

“He somehow got past me and was panicking walking through, saying, ‘Please somebody help me, I’ve been stabbed,'” he said.

The pair had only gotten on the train at the last stop, Peterborough, when the knife rampage began.

“We just heard this sudden commotion and panic of people’s voices. I looked down and saw this huge knife plunging into people,” Grey said.

“I got out of the seat and grabbed Dayna to get her out but her bag strap got caught on the seat. The wall of people that were panicking swept me away and we were separated,” he said.