Keir Starmer vows ‘action WILL be taken’ after ‘extremely violent’ riots erupted over Southport tragedy
"And that itself isn't unusual because kids are very excitable normally when they come out of these classes, so that alone didn't surprise me or strike me as unusual.
"There was this guy in front of me with a knife, who then came towards me in a pretty menacing way. And I thought he's going to kill me too."MailOnline "It was only when I tried to kick him with my right leg that I fell over because my left leg had been quite badly injured."John said he was taken on a stretcher to a road which had become a "makeshift holding area" and was in "quite a lot of pain".
Asked if he felt he was a hero, John replied: "I'm not going sit here and tell you that I was brave about the whole thing and confronting a knifeman, that's not the story at all."And as I've said to everybody that's asked, I don't want this to be about me."I'm really, really saddened to hear what's happened and it's going to take me a while to come to terms with that, it really is.
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