'I was trying to a save life,' man who intervened in Golders Green attack tells BBC

A man who intervened during a knife attack on a Jewish man in Golders Green has told the BBC how he was trying to save a life. Ashkan Asadian rushed to help 76-year-old Moshe Shine as he was being attacked at a bus stop on Wednesday morning. When the attacker later fled into a greengrocer's, Asadian barricaded him in with a shopping trolley, helping to give police enough time to arrive. CCTV footage showed Shine standing at a bus stop adjusting his kippah - a traditional cap - before he was attacked on the north London street. Moments later someone could be seen lunging at him before he tried to get away, with the attacker close behind. Asadian, 61, said he had decided on the spur of the moment to intervene, having seen the stabbing right in front of him. He said when he saw the attacker was going to follow the victim he thought he was "definitely going to kill him" so felt he just had "to do something". He said that as he intervened the two men fell on to the main road - lying side by side on the ground, the knife still in the attacker's hand. "I just tried to keep him busy, get the knife," he said, adding he "tried a few times to catch the knife". "I try to kick his arm, maybe he [will] drop the knife, but I find out [it] is quite dangerous." He later found his own hoodie had been cut, with two spots of blood on it, but he was uninjured.