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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Thu May 23, 2013, 06:39 PM May 2013

British (Cornish) mom filmed confronting killers of soldier in London explains brave act

* Wow! I usually run away from meat cleaver waving young men, not Ingrid

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the woman filmed trying to talk one of the knife-wielding Woolwich attackers down, has said she intervened because "it was better having them [the weapons] aimed on one person."

Loyau-Kennett, 48, a cub scout leader from Cornwall told ITV Daybreak that when she confronted him why he had killed the British Army soldier, the man said the pair wanted "to start a war in London tonight."

The mother of two also said she acted on instinct, and out of concern for the children from a nearby school.

Asked if she was scared, the woman replied:

"No — better me than a child. Unfortunately there were more and more mothers with children stopping around, so it was even more important I was talking to him and ask him what he wanted."




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British (Cornish) mom filmed confronting killers of soldier in London explains brave act (Original Post) flamingdem May 2013 OP
Saw that before they pulled the video warrprayer May 2013 #1
Here is more of what she said to the attacker flamingdem May 2013 #2
She's originally from France muriel_volestrangler May 2013 #3
Well can't quite characterize her as Cornish but flamingdem May 2013 #4

flamingdem

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2. Here is more of what she said to the attacker
Thu May 23, 2013, 06:47 PM
May 2013

Ms Loyau-Kennett, of Helston in Cornwall, told ITV Daybreak she initially thought the victim had been injured in a car crash after spotting a badly damaged vehicle on a pavement at the scene.

She said: “I went to the guy and when I approached the body there was a lady cradling him. And then (one of the killers), the most excited one of the two, said, ‘Don’t go too close to the body’.

“I thought, okay. And because I was down I could see a butcher’s knife and an axe – that’s what he had – and blood. I thought, what the heck? I thought obviously he was a bit excited and the thing was just to talk to him.”

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“He said, ‘Don’t touch, I killed him’. I said, ‘Why?’ He said: ‘He’s a British soldier. He killed people. He killed Muslim people in Muslim countries.’

“And I said: okay. So what would you like? I tried to make him talk about how he felt. He said all the bombs dropping and blindly killing women, children...

“More and more people were starting to come. There were so many people around. I just looked around and I found it so daunting.”

However, Ms Loyau-Kennett said her thoughts were to “just carry on” talking to the man, while several woman arriving at the scene tried to shield the victim.

She said: “I wanted him to concentrate on me and make sure he doesn’t have a funny idea.

“He (the killer) told me he was a British soldier – he didn’t look like a British soldier to me, he wasn’t in uniform. But I thought if another one passes by, or is in the area...”

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Bravery-Cornish-mum-distracted-Woolwich-attacker/story-19057638-detail/story.html

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