Hero delivery driver didn't have 'time to be afraid'
Hero delivery driver Caio Benicio did not have “time to be afraid” when he bravely jumped in to knock the Parnell Street attacker with his helmet after he witnessed the horror attack unfold in Dublin on Thursday.
The 43-year-old Brazillian delivery driver told the Irish Mirror that he has been in Ireland for around one year, moving here after his restaurant burnt down, leaving his family in Brazil to earn money in Ireland to support them.
Caio recently injured himself while playing football in Brazil but still heroically jumped into action to save the children and teacher who had come under attack on Thursday, recounting the moment he stepped in to help, the delivery man said he initially thought the attack was a fight, reports the Irish Mirror.
“I work as a delivery driver. Yesterday I was working as a normal day when I came here to Parnell Square," Caoi explained.
“I was passing by in my motorcycle and I saw, first I thought it was a fight, with a man and a woman, later on, I found out she was a teacher. She was very very brave. I have to tell that.
“I thought it was strange, there was another girl involved who was pulling the girl and I saw the man grab a girl and when I saw the knife, I just acted in an instant.
“I saw him stab the girl in the chest many times, that moment I could not see how bad it was because she was wearing a lot of clothes, and I couldn’t see blood. I took off my helmet to protect myself and use it as a weapon and I hit him in the head and then he fell on the ground.”
He added: “I am here praying the little girl survives, I don’t have much news from her now. She is in the hospital.”