A HERO of the Southport knife attacks has told for the first time how he confronted killer Axel Rudakubana — and said of that fateful day: “The horror will live with me forever.”.
Joel said: “About 40 seconds after Greg turns up, this other cop pulls up and he gets out of his car, comes straight past me and Greg, he goes upstairs straight away, Greg behind him, then I’m behind Greg, straight up the stairs, and then they tackled that piece of s***.”.
Joel Verite, 26, was among the first on the scene as the teenage fiend ran amok last year – leaving three young girls dead and stabbing eight more.
Joel, who took his T-shirt off to help stem the blood, said: “It was just something you literally see in a horror film.
Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar died in the horror which shocked the nation on July 29 last year.
