‘I saw the Cambrils knifeman die in a hail of 15 bullets’
A BRITISH judo star has described the dramatic moment he saw armed police bring down a marauding terrorist with a hail of 15 bullets right in front of shocked holidaymakers.
Winston Gordon, 40, who has competed for Team GB in three Olympic Games, was hit in the left foot by a stray shot as marksmen gunned down the knife-wielding fanatic.
Last night Mr Gordon said the terrorist – wearing what appeared to be an explosive vest over his orange shirt, but which was later discovered to be fake – mocked officers.
Mr Gordon was having a drink at 1am in a Cambrils bar when five terrorists struck, driving an Audi A3 car into a police patrol.
Four were shot at the scene but a fifth escaped and ran 200 yards towards the bar.
Mr Gordon said: ‘The cops pulled up in front of him and told him to stand still.
‘But he was still moving and they fired some shots. The guy started moving up and down again. Then there were more shots fired. He went down, but then he got back up. The police told him, “Stop, Stop” and they fired again.’
That was when Mr Roberts was injured.
‘Something ricocheted and hit my leg. I felt it straight away. It was like something just flew past my leg and cut me. It was just like I had been slashed.’
The terrifying confrontation in the early hours of Friday at the seaside town came hours after the atrocity in Barcelona.
Another British holidaymaker, Paige Baty, told how she saw an officer ‘flying through the air’ after being struck by the Audi as it hit a kerb and flipped over.
As she and other panic-stricken tourists ran for their lives, the attackers clambered from the overturned car and slashed passers-by with knives before a policeman brought four of them down in a hail of bullets.
The fifth attacker stabbed seven people, one of whom died, before he was shot dead outside the bar where Mr Gordon sat.
The incident was filmed on a smartphone by Mr Gordon’s friend Fitzroy Davies. It shows the terrorist defiantly taunting police marksmen before he is felled by ten shots. He gets back to his feet before being finished off in a further hail of bullets.
Police said a 61-year-old Spanish woman was stabbed to death while six others, including a female police officer, were injured.
Miss Baty, 24, from Doncaster, said she was 20 yards from the Audi when it mounted the pedestrianised street and rammed the police officer.
The nightclub manager, who was on holiday with boyfriend Matthew Haynes, 26, said: ‘We were standing about 20 yards away when the black car sped forwards and knocked over a police officer. I saw the policeman fly through the air.
‘I was frozen with fear but Matt shouted “Run!” Everyone around us started running and screaming – it was absolute chaos. I thought we were going to die. It was petrifying.’
She and Mr Haynes ran to the marina jetty and dived into a boat to hide.
The couple lay there for 90 minutes, shaking with fear and listening to gunfire.