LONDON COP TELLS OF HEROIC CHARGE
A HERO policeman thought he was going to die after being stabbed multiple times while taking on all three of the crazed London Bridge terrorists – with just his baton.
Wayne Marques said he heard screams on June 3 and thought a fight had broken out at a pub. The 38-year-old ran towards it, baton extended.
“I took a deep breath and I just charged the first one (attacker),” he said. “As I got near him I swung at him with everything I had.”
He recalled being stabbed in the leg by the first attacker, saying: “I’m thinking ‘s**t, there’s a knife in my leg while I’m fighting the second one and the third one’.”
Eight people died and dozens were wounded in the attack, but it’s believed Mr Marques’ actions prevented many more casualties.
The British Transport Police officer was left temporarily blinded in one eye when he was stabbed in the head.
He said: “My right eye went lights out straight away – I just went blind.”
After being stabbed in the hand he said he could remember little except for “swinging (my baton) all over the place”.