Marcus Monzo: Heroic police officer recalls moment he confronted samurai-wielding murderer with just a baton
A police officer remembered the moment when a psychotic sword master was running after him to prevent more people from being injured or killed.
Inspector Moloy Campbell, Marcus Monzo last year on April 30 in East London, Hinault, During a 20 -minute attack in Hinault, 14 -year -old Daniel Anjorin killed, “There is no time for fear,” he said.
Before the arrival of Mr. Campbell, Monzo had repeatedly hit PC Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield with a Samurai sword and was still loose.
Mr. Campbell PA said to the news agency: ım My sergeant was on the way to the events and I was in the operator’s seat.
“As we heard that the gearbox ‘police officer stabbed, I turned to him and said:’ Just take us there, not to accelerate, don’t let the rejection reach you. We must reach there and take control of this event ‘.”
He said that his thoughts focused entirely on the needs of the officers on the ground.
Mr. Campbell decided to welcome Monzo in a parking lot and the police ran with Baton drawn with terrible scenes caught in the video.
He said: “There was no time for fear. This is not a reflection of the courage of me or someone else, this is a fact, there was no time for it.
“There is a job to be done and there was a goal to be met, and as I said, it was the protection of life.
“At this point, there was no help. The armed police were coming, but they were 10, 15 minutes away and in this case it is too long.
“This is not the mistake of my colleagues, just like that morning.
“This was the situation of doing what I thought should be done. This is the defendant or we confront.
“It was to face the decision because I felt more people’s members and potentially police officers would be seriously injured or worse.”
Campbell, who took a bent line in his hand, meant that the members of the people were “luck” and “good instincts”, that more people were not killed by Monzo that day.
The 37 -year -old said he was proud of his team who managed to detain the suspect.
“They did what we did every day. We chase people with knives. We chase people with aggressive weapons,” he said.
“They were there to do what they did every day, so it wasn’t a surprise, but undoubtedly they saved more loss of life.
Orum I am proud of them every day, and they needed any control or direction to chase a sword man. This skin should talk.
“But there is probably a knife or a police officer who chases someone with something else, probably somewhere in the country.
“What we saw in Hinault was extraordinary conditions, but it is not unusual to have someone walking with a knife at 7 in the morning. It is not unusual.”
In the work of his team, Campbell said: “They regularly leave the parade and sleep two hours ago and go to blue lights.”
When asked whether their courage made them a hero, “I think it would be unpleasant to describe yourself as a hero. I think they know what I think about them if they were a hero.”
On the impact of the Hinault attack, he said: ında In terms of ongoing effect, there is a lot of improvements to make many civil servants.
“However, they returned to the car three days later and responded to the same incident.
Im I took more time because I was still healed – I stayed for four months and I came back when I could use my hand again.
“The first call in the second shift, ‘a samurai sword in a park made a male pushing gestures’ came out.
“The same officers entered their cars and went with blue lights and ran to that person.
“I was on the road too – even though my heart threw a little faster. It only shows that they had passed through them, and yes, they were impressed, but it doesn’t take them away from what they did and they are expected.”
Mr. Campbell sat in Bailey during the Monzo’s murder hearing and went to court when he was found guilty on Wednesday.
On his reaction, he said: “All my thoughts were for Daniel’s family. I talked to my team and thanked them again and filled the thinner details.
“My thoughts were for Daniel’s family to be humble – incredible people. I think the jury came to the right.”
Stuart Bell, chief responsible, said that he was “incredibly proud” from the police reaction.
“The scale and violence of the attack were intense and quite widespread, and during the whole event, our officers responded courageously, secondly put their safety, first tried to harm others, and finally showed great courage and courage and teamwork to detain Monzo.
“Such an event is rare rare, but it is not the idea that our officers are moving towards dangerous situations and cope with them.
“In London, eighteen officers are engaged in calls a day. The behavior of our officers that day is exhibited every day, fearlessness, courage, dedication. Obviously, Molo and Yasmin were seriously injured because they continued to prevent harm to others.”
Speaking in front of Monzo’s sentence on Friday, Mr. Bell gave tribute to the school child who lost his life.
He said: “Daniel was universally described as a talented, gentle young man with a great potential with a life loved by many people.
“His timeless death is a tragedy and words are tragic, not approaching to explain how random Daniel is.
“His family behaved with honorable, flexible and most incredible courage, and frankly we are afraid of them.
“The only thing we could do was to try to bring some kind of justice to Daniel and the family, and to give them space for them to move and mourn.”
Mr. Bell, Monzo’s actions were encouraged by marijuana, although he was worried, although he was exposed to extreme views on social media-although he was exposed to the right and thin and thin ideology-there was no evidence that he saw anything he saw.
Despite efforts to shorten the sale of online blades, Monzo bought his sword legally expensive.
