The bystanders who ran toward danger during a terrorist attack on London Bridge are being called 'heroes'. But one of them was a convicted murderer on day release from prison
The quick-thinking bystanders who ran toward danger to help others during a terrorist attack on London Bridge on Friday swiftly earned the title of "heroes." But for the family of 21-year-old Amanda Champion, who was murdered in 2003, one of the men who intervened as the fatal knifing unfolded is anything but heroic.Convicted murderer James Ford, 42, was on day release from prison when he saw the attack unfolding and rushed to help during the chaos.
According to the BBC, Champion was strangled by Ford before he slit her throat. Her badly decomposed body was found close to her home in Kent, England, three weeks after her disappearance. At the news of her death, her family said: "We're not the family we were; we never will be any more."
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