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Spanish hero's family 'satisfied' with explanation of London terror victim's death
Friday, June 9, 2017 @ 10:00 PM

LONDON police have denied terror victim and hero Ignacio Echeverría was killed by a stray bullet, insisting he was stabbed by one of the killers whilst attempting to fight them off a woman they were attacking.

His sister Ana says the family was summoned by forensic judge Andrew Harris at the Crown Court in Southwark, and that the explanations given for her brother's death were 'correct and sufficient'.

Ignacio was riding his bike and carrying his skateboard near Borough Market on the night of the attack and, when he saw a woman being stabbed, jumped off his cycle and beat the terrorist with his skateboard.

But he was then assaulted from behind by two other terrorists.

All three killers were shot dead by the police, leading to suspicions the Spanish hero had been killed in the crossfire.

It took four days before he was identified as being among the eight dead in the horrendous multiple attack which started on London Bridge, something Ignacio's father Joaquín, sisters Ana and Isabel – the latter of whom also lives in London – and other family members criticised heavily.

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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