‘There was no time for fear’, says officer who confronted Hainault attacker

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A brave police officer who was injured as he ran to confront psychotic swordsman Marcus Monzo has said there was “no time for fear” as lives were on the line.

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00:00and that as I say was the preservation of life and at that point there was no

00:03help coming we were the help armed police were coming but there were 10-15

00:09minutes away and that's far too long in that situation and it's not the fault of

00:12my colleagues it's just the way it played out on that morning and and so

00:17yeah it was just a case of doing what I thought needed to be done it was a

00:21decision do we contain the defendant or do we confront and that was a decision

00:28that needed to be made quickly and obviously the decision was to confront

00:32because I felt that had we done anything else then more members of the public

00:37and potentially police officers would have been seriously injured or or worse

00:42Sir Mark Rowley the head of the Metropolitan Police praised the

00:48extraordinary bravery of the officers who responded to the actions of Marcus

00:55Monzo on the 30th of April last year last week Monzo was jailed for life with a

01:02minimum term of 40 years after being found guilty of 14 year old Daniel and

01:09Jorin's murder three charges of attempted murder aggravated burglary and

01:14possession of a bladed article relating to a kitchen knife well there's there's luck

01:22involved clearly and the good work of those members of the public's good

01:27instincts to get away from this man and we saw footage of someone who had just

01:33been hit by a van and was still able to recognize the danger he was in we saw

01:36heroics from from Henry in his bedroom saving his wife and undoubtedly the the

01:43actions of the initial responding officers we've got Yaz and Cameron King what

01:48they didn't surprise me they do it every day there's nothing new about what they did we

01:51chase people with knives we chase people with firearms we chase people with

01:55offensive weapons so they were there to do what they do every day so there's no

02:00surprise but what they did undoubtedly undoubtedly saved the further loss of

02:05life I'm proud of them every day I'm proud of them every day and I'm as I say I

02:09they needed no supervision or direction to chase down a man with a sword and that

02:14should speak volumes but right now probably as I speak there's a police officer

02:17somewhere in the country chasing someone with a knife or something else

02:21so every day when I stand in front of them in parade I'm proud of them probably

02:24don't tell them enough but that's that's my personality I'm very proud of them

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