Window cleaner reveals how he risked own life to save kids in Southport attack

A heroic model cleaner who helped prevention injured children during the Southport weapon attacks has spoken of his ordeal.

Marcin Tyjon, 41, was 1 of the archetypal radical astatine the country past July and adjacent gave CPR to a young unfortunate aft she was attacked by Axel Rudakubana portion attending a Taylor Swift-themed creation class.

He and his workfellow Joel Verite were driving down the roadworthy connected the time of the attacks erstwhile they came crossed a bleeding pistillate and terrified children moving down the street.

They ran to the adjacent Hart Space, wherever Rudakubana was successful the midst of a stabbing spree, and provided attraction to the stricken children until exigency services arrived.

‘Out of the country of my oculus I noticed a bleeding pistillate lying connected the pavement, leaning against the car,’ Marcin told the Sun.

‘We stopped, backed up and she started screaming.

‘She started saying that determination was idiosyncratic wrong and sidesplitting children.’

Although 3 children – Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, died during the attack, different children – and adults survived acknowledgment successful portion to Marcin and Joel’s interventions.

He added: ‘Everyone was screaming.’

‘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,’ helium added.

‘We were successful specified a authorities of shock, successful specified a frenzy to prevention these children, that we didn’t adjacent person clip to talk to each other.

‘From what Joel aboriginal told me, the perpetrator was lasting connected the landing.

‘Joel didn’t marque a determination toward him, helium conscionable took attraction of the children and brought them retired 1 by one.’

Marcin aboriginal gave a connection astir the lawsuit to Merseyside Police, which helped investigators complaint Rudakubana with 3 counts of murder. He aboriginal pleaded blameworthy to the charges, on with 10 further counts of attempted murder, during the archetypal time of his proceedings astatine Liverpool Crown Court connected Monday.

Yet contempt his heroic efforts, Marcin says helium inactive wonders if helium could’ve done more.

‘I don’t know. I tried,’ helium told the Sun.

Investigators revealed Rudakubana was reported to anti-terror programme Prevent 3 times earlier the Southport massacre. The archetypal lawsuit occurred successful 2019 erstwhile helium was aged conscionable 13 years aged aft helium showed a morbid fascination with a schoolhouse massacre.

In summation to the execution charges, Rudakubana besides pleaded blameworthy to 1 complaint of the ‘production of a biologic toxin, namely ricin, contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974’.

This relates to an Al-Qaeda manual and ricin that were recovered astatine his location pursuing the attack.

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