Leytonstone Tube Station Attack: Man Charged

Muhaydin Mire, 29, the suspect believed to have carried out the attack at Leytonstone subway station late Saturday, has been charged with attempted murder.

Police cordon off Leytonstone Underground Station in east London following a stabbing incident, Saturday Dec. 5, 2015.

Amateur video shows a pool of blood and bloody footprints at the ticket gates of the suburban station.

The man was eventually overpowered by police officers, who used a Taser to disable and disarm him. The victim suffered “serious” stab wounds but is in a stable condition in an east London hospital, police said.

“We are treating this as a terrorist incident”, Commander Richard Walton, leader of Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism unit, said in a statement.

“The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely”.

One bystander can be heard shouting at the suspect: “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv”.

A police auto is seen parked outside Leytonstone station in north London on Sunday.

The attacks inspired the viral hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv, honoring an insult shouted by a witness to the attack that was captured in cell phone footage.

They showed police confronting a man brandishing an object in his hand as officers warned him to drop it down.

British police are ramping up patrols at transport hubs across London to “identify and deter terrorism” following the knife attack, the Associated Press reported.

Pethers was hailed a hero by police and won plaudits on social media, but the incident left him bitter about the lack of involvement from other members of the public to thwart his attacker’s assault.

The attack comes weeks after the Paris terror attack, which claimed the lives of 130 people, and just days after Parliament voted to extend air strikes and bomb Islamic State in Syria. “But “you ain’t no Muslim, bruv” said it all much better than I ever could”.

He spoke only to confirm details of his identity and say that he understood the charge before he was remanded in custody to appear at a preliminary hearing at London’s Old Bailey on Friday.

Deputy Chief Constable Adrian Hanstock from the British Transport Police said the number of firearms teams had doubled in the previous year and since Saturday they had boosted the number of officers and patrols across the London underground network.