George Cross for the Southport ladies.

Did you expect them to abandon their children and simply “leg it”..The George Cross was never inaurated for the suggested purpose

They were wonderful, but would anyone have left those children, i think not.

Rondoallaturc

Did you expect them to abandon their children and simply “leg it”..The George Cross was never inaurated for the suggested purpose

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of course, any decent person would help the children and others helped too

The George cross is for acts of valour. Those ladies were undoubtedly very brave in the face of an astoundingly unexpected attack by a knife wielding madman (he must have been mad to do such a thing). They acted selflessly and correctly. Yes. Medals for them both.

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This man is definitely a hero

He certainly is Grannygravy13

I shouldn’t think they want a medal and I expect most adults in that situation would try and get the children behind them or to disarm an attacker.People act in the spur of the moment and only later think about the danger.Yes, brave of course.Perhaps these sort of classes should now think about locking doors once they start.

Yes Oreo I agree. Extremely brave, both the man who ran to help and the two ladies who ran the class, but I’m sure if faced with such a situation, most people wouldn’t think twice about trying to defend the little girls. I think a medal would be the last thing on their minds.
Prayers for the injured children and the two young women.

That chap who ran in when there were only a couple of policemen on scene - before the back-up arrived - was pretty brave.

I believe he helped the police to restrain the perpetrator, which must have been quite a frightening experience.