Heroic MP who tried in vain to save stabbed officer had been touched by terrorism before
Tobias Ellwood, who attempted to resuscitate policeman Keith Palmer outside UK parliament amid terror attack, lost a brother in Bali bombings
The MP’s had been told to shelter inside.
Just steps from Britain’s parliament building, a grisly scene was unfolding. An attacker had mowed into a crowd of people on Westminster bridge. Then, knife in hand, he charged the building’s guards. The ensuing scuffle left at least one police officer gravely wounded. Shots had been fired; no one knew whether the danger had subsided.
That didn’t stop British MP Tobias Ellwood.
While his colleagues gathered on the chamber floor, Ellwood headed outside to see whether he could help. Just steps from the exit, he found an unconscious police officer, bleeding from multiple wounds. At that moment, Ellwood’s military training kicked in. According to witnesses, he attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and applied pressure to the wounds to stem the blood flow. He didn’t stop until medical staff and an air ambulance landed in Parliament Square.
In pictures passed around social media, Ellwood can be seen talking to police officers, hands and face still bloody. He then returned to the Foreign Office without speaking to reporters.
