Hero window cleaner risked his own life saving injured children in Southport attack

Marcin Tyjon heard terrifying screams and saw children moving down Hart Street successful Southport, Merseyside, moments aft Axel Rudakubana had stabbed respective people

This is the leader model cleaner who risked his ain beingness redeeming injured children successful the Southport attack.

Marcin Tyjon, 41, adjacent gave CPR to 1 young unfortunate aft Axel Rudakubana had stabbed respective people astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation enactment past July. Marcin and his workfellow Joel Verite had heard terrifying screams and saw children moving down the thoroughfare successful the aftermath of the bloodshed.

They ran to Hart Space - wherever "everyone was screaming" - to assistance the stricken youngsters. Marcin, primitively from Poland, said: "People started moving from the area, neighbours, they started bringing towels.

"Someone took attraction of 1 girl, and I took attraction of the archetypal one, past Joel brought retired different miss and different one. I didn't adjacent cognize that the attacker was inside."

Yet, some Marcin and Joel, 26, risked their ain lives to assistance the injured kids successful the creation workplace successful Southport, Merseyside. They gave them capable captious attraction until ambulances arrived.

Although Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe aboriginal died, different children - and adults - pulled through, successful portion acknowledgment to Marcin and Joel's interventions.

Marcin, a model cleaner, gave a connection to Merseyside Police, whose probe pb to Rudakubana's 3 execution charges. He admitted these counts, successful summation to 10 charges of attempted execution and 1 complaint of possession of a knife, connected Monday astatine Liverpool Crown Court.

It was besides revealed Rudakubana was reported to anti-terror programme Prevent 3 times earlier the massacre. The monster was archetypal referred successful 2019 erstwhile helium was aged conscionable 13 aft showing a morbid fascination with a schoolhouse massacre.

But The Sun reports was recovered 3 times not to airs a coercion risk. The teenager, from Banks, Lancashire, was owed to basal proceedings but helium entered the blameworthy pleas astatine the eleventh hour.

Now, expanding panic laws to encompass atrocities carried retired by lone attackers similar the Southport slayer would beryllium a mistake - and specified threats are not new, information experts person warned.

Sir Keir Starmer announced a reappraisal of panic laws to code "extreme unit carried retired by loners, misfits, young men successful their bedrooms" pursuing the Southport murders.