Terror heroes on late Queen’s gallantry list
A CONVICTED murderer who saved the lives of Fishmongers’ Hall terrorism victims will receive a bravery award after being put forward on the Queen’s final Civilian Gallantry List.
Steven Gallant is among four men being honoured for bravery after putting themselves in danger to save people’s lives during the 2019 terror attack.
Mr Gallant, who was jailed for 17 years in 2005 for the murder of a former-firefighter, used a narwhal tusk to challenge terrorist Usman Khan after he went on a knife rampage at Fishmongers’ Hall, next to London Bridge.
The terrorist stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones to death during the event, which had been organised by a prison rehabilitation programme. Mr Gallant was approved for release from prison in 2021, after he had 10 months taken off his original minimum tariff.
Among the other 14 people on the list is a civilian who lost his life intervening in an armed attack and a woman who
saved an elderly neighbour from a burning building.
John Crilly, Darryn Frost and Lukasz Koczocik will also receive the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for their bravery in preventing any further deaths in the Fishmongers’ Hall attack.
John Rees, who died during a stabbing at the Penygraig Co-op store in Wales, will receive a posthumous Gallantry
Medal for his bravery during the incident in May 2020. Lisa Way and Ayette Bounouri will be honoured for trying to stop the armed assailant.
The other recipients will be awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery. This list is the final one approved by the late Queen, after 70 years of awards.
Future awards will be approved by the King and will take his name.