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Lee Rigby revenge attack 'like a horror movie' | Lee Rigby revenge attack 'like a horror movie' |
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An ex-soldier who stopped a neo-Nazi beheading a Flintshire shopper with a hammer and a machete says he is still haunted by the savage attack. | An ex-soldier who stopped a neo-Nazi beheading a Flintshire shopper with a hammer and a machete says he is still haunted by the savage attack. |
Zack Davies, 26, tried to kill dentist Dr Sarandev Bhambra, 25, in revenge for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. | Zack Davies, 26, tried to kill dentist Dr Sarandev Bhambra, 25, in revenge for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. |
The racially motivated attack happened in Tesco in Mold in January and earlier this month Davies was jailed for life. | |
Speaking for the first time since the attack, Peter Fuller, 44, said it was "like something out of a horror movie". | |
"I will think about what happened for the rest of my life," he said. | "I will think about what happened for the rest of my life," he said. |
"That's the image I still have in my head every night - him running towards me with the machete raised and dripping blood. | "That's the image I still have in my head every night - him running towards me with the machete raised and dripping blood. |
"It is like something out of a horror movie." | "It is like something out of a horror movie." |
Mr Fuller spoke out about the ordeal before accepting an award for outstanding bravery from the Pride of Britain Awards. | |
Mr Fuller said he heard Davies shout "remember Lee Rigby". | Mr Fuller said he heard Davies shout "remember Lee Rigby". |
"Initially I just thought it was kids larking about but then as I moved about four paces I saw a man on the floor surrounded by blood and the guy standing over him and hitting with a hammer," he said. | "Initially I just thought it was kids larking about but then as I moved about four paces I saw a man on the floor surrounded by blood and the guy standing over him and hitting with a hammer," he said. |
"I decided then that there was no way I was backing away. | "I decided then that there was no way I was backing away. |
"There was no-one else around me, they were all running and screaming, so I moved to one side to let Mr Bhambra run past and then I moved into the middle of the aisle and made myself as big as possible. | "There was no-one else around me, they were all running and screaming, so I moved to one side to let Mr Bhambra run past and then I moved into the middle of the aisle and made myself as big as possible. |
"I started shouting at the guy that what he was doing was madness and that I was ex-Forces. I made it clear that he was either going to have to go through me or he was going to stop." | "I started shouting at the guy that what he was doing was madness and that I was ex-Forces. I made it clear that he was either going to have to go through me or he was going to stop." |
During the trial, Gareth Preston, senior prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Wales, said: "Such was the level of violence involved that, were it not for the extremely courageous actions of ex-serviceman Peter Fuller, this offence could have become an act of murder." | During the trial, Gareth Preston, senior prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Wales, said: "Such was the level of violence involved that, were it not for the extremely courageous actions of ex-serviceman Peter Fuller, this offence could have become an act of murder." |
Mr Fuller will be honoured at the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain ceremony at London's Grosvenor House on Monday night. |
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