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By Leo Hickman. Click here to read article. in full
Perched on the edge of her sofa at home in west Cornwall, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett is insisting she is not a hero. "I feel like a fraud. I don't think I did something courageous. In the second world war, people would do something like this every day."
The rest of the nation, it seems, disagrees. Last Wednesday afternoon, the 48-year-old, French-born mother of two was returning from a trip to see relatives in France and, having just visited her children in Plumstead, was on her way to Victoria to catch a coach back to Cornwall. As she sat "watching the world go by" with her suitcases on the No 53 bus, it passed through Woolwich on the way to Parliament Square. It was here that she was suddenly forced, as she describes it, to "confront evil". Her
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• When Ingrid Loyau-Kennett's bus was halted at the scene of the Woolwich attack, she leapt out to offer aid, but instead ended up engaging one suspect in conversation. source Guardian
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