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Jack Merritt, right, died in the London Bridge attack, worked with Steve Gallant , Links, Learning, rehabilitation course

A convicted murderer has said that he "will not hesitate" to join The Fight against the London Bridge knifeman in November.

Steven Galant, 42, said, how to cope, he began to Usman Khan, armed with a chair, while The Attack began in a nearby prisoner rehabilitation event.

Gallant , who was on parole at The Event , will serve a minimum of 17 years for killing ex-firefighter Barrie Jackson in hull, 15 years ago.

Khan, the Merritt killed Saskia Jones, and Jack was later shot dead by the police.

Three others were injured

Gallant was The Last of three people who were shot was identified interim Khan on The Bridge .

In his first interview since the, what he said, as a "tragic day," Gallant , he went to investigate after he heard noises from one of the lower floors of The Building .

"I could tell something was wrong and had to help," he told the PA news Agency.

"I saw the injured people. Khan stood in the foyer with two large knives in their hands. "

"He was clearly a danger to all, so that I hesitate. "

Last month, a civil servant Darryn Frost described as A Man - Now identified as the Galant to keep a wood uses, the chair of the knifeman in the Bay before you get to the Khan, when he revealed his suicide belt, which showed, as it turned out later, incorrectly.

Mr. Frost said that he was born Galant filed a narwhal Tusk that he had found on a nearby wall display

South African in London, Darryn Frost, on the left side, crashed on the second Tusk, which he offered in attack, in the Khan is on The Right side, on the London Bridge

Galant, "special thanks" to Mr. Frost. "He had not said that to me in the course of the narwhal Tusk in this crucial moment, I could not have been killed, The Situation could have been worse," he said.

He also described the reformed ex-prisoner, John Crilly, and a Chef , known only as Lukasz - who was stabbed five times when he stepped in to help, as "extremely Brave ".

for the implementation of a fatal attack on 33-year-old former firefighter, Mr. Jackson.

During the study, Hull Crown Court heard The Attack was carried out because Gallant was believed, wrongly, that Mr Jackson had his girlfriend attacked.

"no one has said, The Right to a life, and I offer my sincere apologies To My victim, which caused the family for the damage," Gallant .

Barrie Jackson was Galant killed by Steven, and James Gilligan, in an attack outside a pub in Hull

"I can never come to life, and it is right, I got a severe punishment for my actions.

"After I accepted my punishment, I decided to look for help.

"If you go to prison, you lose control of your life. Their own future based on the decisions of the other.

"the improvement itself is one of The Few things you can do, while reducing the existing burden on the society. "

Since going to prison, Gallant , who is eligible for parole in 2022, subject to the approval, "has vowed never to be violent again. "

since then, He has learned to read and write, of business administration studied and in the learning-rehabilitation project, the host of The Event was that Khan beat.

He said the death, of course-coordinators Mr. Merritt, whom he met in the year 2016, and Miss Jones were an "unbearable blow," and the "sense of loss is immense".

Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones was killed during a conference on the rehabilitation of criminal offenders

Gallant , Mr. Merritt was described as a "role model and a friend. "

He said: "Jack, no matter who they were: he took care of you and your future; he saw who she could be and to not define you by your past. I miss him badly. "

Miss Jones ", he said, was respected and to be respected "and" loved by the involved with the course.

He added that he was "sure" the couple would like the Learn Together programme to continue.

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Source of news: bbc.com