Her hug from victim’s father

THE family of Alexandre Pigeard yesterday thanked Helen Kennett for trying to save his life seconds before being attacked herself.

In emotional scenes, the nurse was embraced by the 26-year-old Frenchman’s father, Philippe. She wept as she was formally thanked for trying to help despite knifewielding terrorists running amok just yards away.

Mr Pigeard, from Caen in Normandy, had been living in London for just over two years. His father Philippe, a musician and poet, said yesterday: ‘I’m present here as a desolated father who has lost a child in such circumstances – an inconsolable father who for 703 days has not been close to his son.’