Hero officers who confronted Southport killer honoured for bravery
Three police officers who faced during the madness of killing with the Southport knife attacker Axel Rudakubana were honored for their courage.
Sergeant Gregory Gillespie, Constable Luke Holden and Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) Timothy Parry were the first officers to appear on the stage in Taylor Swift themed workshop on July 29 last year.
18 -year -old Rudakubana, who killed Nine Alice Da Silva Aguiar; Bebe King, six; And Elsie Dot Stancombe, ate; And 10 people, including eight children, were injured, standing at the top of a staircase flight holding a large knife, faced with civil servants.
Mersexia police officers were the “general winners of the 2025 Courage Awards of the British and Wales Police Federation (PFEW) held on Thursday.
Pfew said that SGT Gillespie was the first to come to Hart Street in Southport, and told us how to see “chaos ile with“ extremely panic ”people on the street.
Before joining PC Holden and PCSO Parry, he directed his medical staff to a seriously injured child.
They witnessed the members of the people who escaped from the dance studio carrying young children.
SGT Gillespie, who was equipped with a Baton and a Tail, and the PC Holden entered the building as PCSO Parry output.
They found Rudakubana at the age of 17, grabbed a large knife on the stairs, and approached him shouting to drop the knife. PCSO Parry also ran to help.
Rudakubana, who was sentenced to at least 52 years of imprisonment in January, dropped the gun and shot with a triple baton and was handcuffed and arrested and kicked to control the youth.
PFEW National President Tiff Lynch said from all winners: “confronting violent attackers, saving from life -threatening situations, or making second decisions divided under enormous pressure, these officers showed extraordinary courage and self -sacrifice”.
The president started a public investigation on the attack on Tuesday to determine the changes that need to be made urgently to protect the most vulnerable ones from other “horrors”.
President Sir Adrian Fulford opened the investigation at the Liverpool Town Hall to what he described as one of the most terrible crimes in our country’s history ”.
In the opening statement, Sir Adrian said: “As a society, we can define all the solid steps that should be taken to protect ourselves and especially the most vulnerable, although no solution is known to think about the actions of such immorality.
“And this should be realized quickly to respond to the victims and their families and to determine all the changes that need to be made urgently.”
