Restaurant owner tackles knifeman in south London

This is the moment a restaurant owner tackles a knifeman in his shop just a year after his 14 year old son was stabbed to death. The man was threatening a girl in his Caribbean food shop when Julius Cools stepped in to remove the machete-length knife. Last November, Julius’ son Jermaine was fatally stabbed near West Croydon train station for which a 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged. At 14 years old, Jermaine was the youngest person to be stabbed and killed on London’s streets in 2021, a year in which 30 teenagers lost their lives and which set a grim record for teenage stabbings in the capital. SWNS