Marcin Tyjon heard terrifying screams and saw children running down Hart Street in Southport, Merseyside, moments after Axel Rudakubana had stabbed several people
This is the hero window cleaner who risked his own life saving injured children in the Southport attack.
Marcin Tyjon, 41, even gave CPR to one young victim after Axel Rudakubana had stabbed several people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party last July. Marcin and his colleague Joel Verite had heard terrifying screams and saw children running down the street in the aftermath of the bloodshed.
They ran to Hart Space – where “everyone was screaming” – to help the stricken youngsters. Marcin, originally from Poland, said: “People started running from the area, neighbours, they started bringing towels.
“Someone took care of one girl, and I took care of the first one, then Joel brought out another girl and another one. I didn’t even know that the attacker was inside.”
Yet, both Marcin and Joel, 26, risked their own lives to help the injured kids in the dance studio in Southport, Merseyside. They gave them enough vital care until ambulances arrived.
Although Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe later died, other children – and adults – pulled through, in part thanks to Marcin and Joel’s interventions.
Marcin, a window cleaner, gave a statement to Merseyside Police, whose investigation lead to Rudakubana’s three murder charges. He admitted these counts, in addition to 10 charges of attempted murder and one charge of possession of a knife, on Monday at Liverpool Crown Court.
It was also revealed Rudakubana was reported to anti-terror programme Prevent three times before the massacre. The monster was first referred in 2019 when he was aged just 13 after showing a morbid fascination with a school massacre.
But The Sun reports was found three times not to pose a terrorism risk. The teenager, from Banks, Lancashire, was due to stand trial but he entered the guilty pleas at the eleventh hour.
Now, expanding terror laws to encompass atrocities carried out by lone attackers like the Southport killer would be a mistake – and such threats are not new, security experts have warned.
Sir Keir Starmer announced a review of terror laws to address “extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms” following the Southport murders.
