LordRaven wrote:Polish hero was stabbed five times in London Bridge terror attack, but kept on fighting
But the convicted terrorist, who had only been released from prison 11 months earlier, used a break in the afternoon’s proceedings to go into the toilets and tape a fake suicide vest to his body and knives to his hands.
At around 1.55pm he emerged into the hallway on the first floor of the Fishmongers Hall and began his attack.
Mr Merritt, 25, who had helped to organise the event, ran out to try and calm him down along with others who had been in the Banqueting Hall of the Grade I listed building, sources told the Telegraph.
Bryonn Bain, an associate professor with the University of California in Los Angeles who spoke at the conference, said that the “brave” Cambridge graduate “was the first line of defence, he was the first person to confront him”.
Lukasz Koczocik, a worker at the venue had been cleaning glasses in the basement and heard the screams, also ran to help.
“He goes towards the trouble, he gets there on the first floor and it is very clear that there’s a bad guy, he’s got two knives in his hand, there’s screaming, there’s chaos,” Toby Williamson, chief executive of the Fishmongers Company, told the BBC as he paid tribute to his staff.
Mr Koczocik armed himself with a long stick and “charges towards the bad guy” but hits “something protective”.
"But he’s buying time and he allows others to escape to move to adjacent rooms and at that point he has about a one minute one on one straight combat,” Mr Williamson said.
“This guy Khan then works his way up Lukasz pole slashing with his knife, he takes five wounds to his left side.”
Mr Bain said that it “felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos."
Mr Koczocik, who it was announced on Monday will be getting an honour for bravery in his native Poland, started to lose strength but two men from the conference rushed to intervene.
One was armed with a fire extinguisher and the other with a narwhal tusk that he had ripped from the wall.
“They come and join the fight and it is pretty gruesome and I think the terrorist decided he was outnumbered, he runs though and goes down the main staircase and the next bit of hell is he is at reception and he can't get out the front door," Mr Williamson said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/1 ... on-bridge/It is nice to know that Poland is going to honour this guy for his selfless actions
