Youngest victim of Huntingdon train attack is Hollywood star Damson Idris’ 17-year-old nephew

The nephew of British-Nigerian actor Damson Idris is allegedly one of the youngest victims of the Huntingdon train knife rampage suspect. Isaiah Ishmael Idris, 17, suffered facial injuries after being slashed as he travelled on the Docklands Light Railway in the early hours of Saturday morning. Sixth-form student Isaiah is believed to have staggered off the train at Pontoon Dock station in east London and called 999, the Daily Mail reported. His uncle Damson, 34, is a Hollywood star who played Brad Pitts rookie team-mate Joshua Pearce in F1: The Movie, a blockbuster was based on Formula One legend James Hunt. Anthony Williams, 32, was remanded into custody at Peterborough Magistrates Court on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over the mass stabbing on a LNER Doncaster to London Kings Cross high-speed service forced to make an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon on Saturday night. Isaiah is named over the incident at the DLR station at 12.46am on November 1. The suspect, subsequently identified by British Transport Police as Williams, had left the location before officers arrived. Another uncle, Habeeb Idris, confirmed to the Mail that his nephew was wounded. He is quoted as saying: I am aware that Isaiah was involved in the incident on a train, but we are dealing with this privately as a family. Damson was born in Peckham as the youngest of six children. His older brother, Murtala Murray Idris, is Isaiahs father. Meanwhile, Cambridgeshire Police are reviewing whether an attack on September 27, which left a man with facial injuries, is connected to a mass stabbing on a train. The post Youngest victim of Huntingdon train attack is Hollywood star Damson Idris’ 17-year-old nephew appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.