Woman kept 2 suspects engaged
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May 24, 2013, Friday
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A BRAVE scout leader has emerged as an unlikely hero in the terror attack that left one man dead in London.
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man lying on the street but found he had no pulse and was already dead.
The 48-year-old mother kept talking to the two bloody attackers before police came, trying to keep them calm.
Loyau-Kennett was returning from a trip to France and was visiting her children in London when the bus she was on stopped because of the melee.
She said she saw the victim lying on the street and tried to help him since she had been trained in first aid. She said a man "with a black hat and a revolver in one hand and a cleaver in the other came over" and excitedly warned her to stay away from the body. "I asked him why he had done what he had done," she told The Guardian. "He said he had killed the man because he (the victim) was a British soldier who killed Muslim women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was furious about the British Army being over there."
She described the other attacker as quiet and shy. "I asked him if he wanted to give me what he was holding in his hand, which was a knife, but I didn't want to say that," she said. "He didn't agree and I asked him: 'Do you want to carry on?' He said: 'No, no, no.' I didn't want to upset him," she said.
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man lying on the street but found he had no pulse and was already dead.
The 48-year-old mother kept talking to the two bloody attackers before police came, trying to keep them calm.
Loyau-Kennett was returning from a trip to France and was visiting her children in London when the bus she was on stopped because of the melee.
She said she saw the victim lying on the street and tried to help him since she had been trained in first aid. She said a man "with a black hat and a revolver in one hand and a cleaver in the other came over" and excitedly warned her to stay away from the body. "I asked him why he had done what he had done," she told The Guardian. "He said he had killed the man because he (the victim) was a British soldier who killed Muslim women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was furious about the British Army being over there."
She described the other attacker as quiet and shy. "I asked him if he wanted to give me what he was holding in his hand, which was a knife, but I didn't want to say that," she said. "He didn't agree and I asked him: 'Do you want to carry on?' He said: 'No, no, no.' I didn't want to upset him," she said.
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