Tube hero says sick bystanders were filming on their phones as he fought off crazed Tube knifeman?

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An engineer told last night how he 猛烈に fought with the East London Tube テロリスト while others stood by and filmed it on their 動きやすい phones.

David Pethers, 33, said he and another 通勤（学）者 used their 団体／死体s to 封鎖する the knifeman in a corner of the 駅／配置する to 保護する toddlers and children behind.

He turned up at the scene at Leytonstone 駅／配置する すぐに after the fanatic had 選び出す／独身d out a middle-老年の man carrying a guitar and had beaten him unconscious.

Mr Pethers was also 削除するd in the neck as he tried to 取り組む the knifeman but continued to 貿易（する） blows with him until police arrived and used Tasers to bring him 負かす／撃墜する

証言，証人／目撃するs said the 攻撃者 had then pulled out his knife and 削除するd it ‘今後 and backwards’ over the 犠牲者’s neck.

Mr Pethers was also 削除するd in the neck as he tried to 取り組む the knifeman but continued to 貿易（する） blows with him until police arrived and used Tasers to bring him 負かす／撃墜する.

In a 劇の account of his ordeal, Mr Pethers told how he shouted to get the 攻撃者’s attention so he did not turn and 傷つける anyone else but he 主張するd he was not a hero.

Mr Pethers, however, said he was upset by the fact that several people stood by and 記録，記録的な／記録するd the 出来事/事件 on their phones, rather than help. ‘The worst part about it was me and the bloke with the rucksack, we were 基本的に baying for his attention so he would not go for anyone else and there were other adult men standing there, just filming it on their phones.

緊急: Paramedics help the 犠牲者 into an 救急車 outside the Tube 駅／配置する に引き続いて the 出来事/事件

‘There were so many 適切な時期s where someone could have grabbed him. One guy （機の）カム up to me afterwards and said “井戸／弁護士席 done, I want to shake your 手渡す, you are the only one who did anything, I got the whole thing on film”.

‘I was so angry, I nearly turned on him but I walked away. I thought “Are you crazy? You are standing there filming and did nothing”. I was really angry afterwards. I had to go for a walk for about two hours to 静める 負かす／撃墜する.’

Mr Pethers, a 解除する engineer, was on his way to his work Christmas party when he walked 負かす／撃墜する the stairs into the 駅／配置する and （機の）カム across the terrifying scene on Saturday night. The 攻撃者 had already 本気で 負傷させるd one man who was lying in a pool of 血 and was pacing up and 負かす／撃墜する the inside the 駅／配置する looking for more 犠牲者s.

‘I walked 負かす／撃墜する into the 駅／配置する and I saw someone on the 床に打ち倒す and 血 and a guy who I thought was Somalian shouting and waving a knife,’ he said.

‘So I turned 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and started shouting at people to get 支援する out of the 駅／配置する. People who were coming into the 駅／配置する, I was telling them to turn around. I noticed the Somalian guy was going after a guy with a rucksack so I started shouting at the bloke with a knife, to get his attention.

‘Then he turned and （機の）カム に向かって me. The guy with the rucksack （機の）カム over and we tried to 含む／封じ込める him in the ticket area. We 交流d a few blows, me and the Somalian fella.

‘He 削減（する） my neck. I was throwing punches at him and he was swiping the knife at me and the man with the rucksack was doing the same thing, just trying to stop him.’

He 追加するd: ‘It was 7pm, there were children, I’m pretty sure there were babies in buggies. I just thought “I am going to stop this idiot”.’

Mr Pethers said that after a short time, police arrived and someone in the （人が）群がる dragged him away. It was at this point he realised he had 苦しむd a four インチ knife 負傷させる on his neck, under his jaw. Incredibly, he said he then tried to break 解放する／自由な to 攻撃する，衝突する the man because he was angry he had stabbed him.

‘Then the police arrived and I think four Taser 発射s were 解雇する／砲火／射撃d and I think the fourth one 攻撃する，衝突する him, or worked and he went 負かす／撃墜する and the police took over and I 肉親，親類d of sloped off. I’m not 正確に／まさに sure what happened when the police arrived because someone dragged me 支援する.

‘I saw one, the first policeman, 解雇する／砲火／射撃 his Taser and I don’t know if that 行方不明になるd or it didn’t work but then another police officer （機の）カム out and 発射 another Taser and it went like that and I think the third or fourth Taser worked.’

Mr Pethers, who has lived in Leytonstone all his life, said he believed the 攻撃者 was on 麻薬s. ‘There was a moment where we locked 注目する，もくろむs, and he did seem like he was on something. He was shouting stuff about Syria but that was just one or two 発言／述べるs…he just looked like a 割れ目 （麻薬）常用者 to me, like he was on something and had just lost it. He was going for people’s necks.

‘I don’t think I was 脅すd, it all happened so 急速な／放蕩な. My first thought was just to get ev eryone 支援する.’

But he 主張するd he was not a hero.

‘I don’t really see it like that. I am glad I did it but at the same time I am not glad I put my family through it. They were really worried.

‘All I would say to people is, don’t put yourselves in danger but at the same time, if someone is trying to do something, don’t stand there filming ? help them.’?

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