Huntingdon was a lone wolf attack

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Confirmed by police about half an hour ago that the 35 year old arrested has been released without charge.

Exactly. Possibly wearing similar clothing. Had the attacker been a white man in his 30s with say a bald head and a brown jacket, and a similar looking man had been nearby too, then I'm sure he'd have been arrested too. The good thing about arresting people is that the arrest is checked for validity and an innocent person released. I'd hardly have expected them to have arrested a white woman in her 70s given the description they were given.

They were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Plenty of MN posters were howling for such details.

Ridiculous, isn’t it, how desperate some people are?

Yes, how depressing. Poor man

Speculating on his mental state or not is one thing but the other threads descended into vile racism, attacks on Islam and whether a black person born here is even "British".

Not comparable.

Exactly. I feel for the innocent man that was arrested but imagine if he was involved and wasn’t arrested. We always have to err on the side of caution

Just awful so sorry for the victims and everyone on the train. Very frightening.

More likely a mentally ill man ri=unning amok. The simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

The police saw a potential suspect matching the description and detained him. Following investigations they then released him. Imagine if it turned out he was one of the attackers and the police did not detain him and he then went on to kill or maim others.

Very well said. 👏🏻

Some people simply can’t see it.

When I was a teenager in the industrial Midlands, in the 70s, I had a schoolfriend whose brothers were picked up under the sus laws. It was appalling. It was a Sunday morning, just walking from church in their suits with their Bibles under their arms. They were black British, of course.

Nearly half a century on and it seems nothing changes, for shame.

Leaving aside the horror of the attack, the reaction on here was so fucking depressing (and indicative of how right wing the place has unfortunately become). 1500+ posts in the blink of an eye, many of them talking about things like using the navy in the channel to send the boats back, Pakistani rape gangs etc

Pages and pages of Reform UK-type arseholery, based on basically nothing, as it increasingly looks like this incident was nothing to do with islam or terror whatsoever

First the usual suspects tried to use this to attack immigration.

Then they said it had to be terrorist related because you wouldn't have two men being so disturbed at the same time.

Now it turns out there was only one man.

And apparently only an Islamist would tell police to "kill him" rather than someone....extremely disturbed?

Pure racism now. Nothing else.

But it’s NOT linked. Stop being Islamophobic. I’ve reported you.

I imagine on board cctv has cleared him. Also if conscious the victims may have confirmed who stabbed them. Poor guy, to be arrested for that.

Why? They arrested someone that was reported, apparently in good faith, as being involved with the attack. They’ve now discovered he had nothing to do with it and have let him go and publicly cleared him.

I’d argue that’s exactly what the police are supposed to do.

They are fucking obsessed. Numbskulls! 🙄🙄🙄

Jesus Christ, did you really just say that?

God that poor other man imagine being accused of that and being totally innocent

The press conference this morning stated that 2 people were arrested with no mention of one of them being released.

Well that is possible, but on the other hand if he had been white with blond hair and similar age/height, and wearing similar clothing to a white attacker, it would have been equally easy for both the passengers and the police to have made the same mistake. The police have to err on the side of caution and arrest anyone who bears a resemblance to the villain. Otherwise they could end up letting the wrong person escape.

It's really not unusual when there is a large scale confusing incident with multiple witnesses saying different things for anyone potentially believed to be involved to be arrested. Sometimes they are de arrested on scene sometimes it's after they have been taken to the station once it is confirmed they weren't involved. My DB was arrested after a mass brawl in a pub because he was a white male in a blue t shirt but after a quick check of CCTV he was released without charge. Surely people can see it's best to detain anyone possibly involved then release rather than let them go then try to find them again later. That's why I don't believe people should ever be named until charged.

Do they? They made two arrests and one of those people has been released. You do realise that happens all the time? Quite often in circumstances much less traumatic than last night’s events.

Yes, mental health slurs are far more appropriate...