{"id":155852,"date":"2025-06-03T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155852\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:00:17","slug":"id-rather-it-had-happened-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155852\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019d rather it had happened to me!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Ho, who survived the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, has told GB News he would have preferred to have been attacked rather than his friends. <\/p>\n<p>Ho, who was injured during the incident, explained what happened on the night eight people were killed and 48 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He described how he had been protecting his friends when three terrorists attempted to kick in the door of a restaurant where they were gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Ho, who was injured during the attack, told GB News: \u201cTo be honest, I don&#8217;t think I really had a choice about it. I was there, I saw these three people try to kick in the door in the restaurants. To be perfectly honest, it happened really, really fast, and it felt like I didn&#8217;t have a choice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fc7c5\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"7464731ba2b9773e43db7a2c1d263560\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/geoff-ho.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Geoff Ho\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Geoff Ho relived the London Bridge attck in an interview with GB News <\/p>\n<p>GB NEWS <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeroes choose to actively run to danger. Danger found me. I didn&#8217;t have a choice about it. So, there was my friends, there was me. I made the calculation that if anything happened to me, it would be better than it happening to my friends. It&#8217;s really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember everything from that day. Basically, what happened was that I was out, earlier in the day I watched the Lions tour of New Zealand, and then after I finished work with some mutual friends of ours, I ended up going to The Sheaf and London Bridge and a bunch of other pubs to watch the Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST DEVELOPMENTS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd after the Champions League final, I decided to go home because it&#8217;d been a long day. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But instead of going straight home, I stopped outside the Southwark Tavern pub to break up what I thought was a fight and then I went to the restaurant just to catch up with a few more friends, which was when the terrorists attacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea it was actually a terrorist attack. At first, you see what happened was that having broken up the fight outside a pub and stopped a bouncer being beaten up by two people, I thought that the three terrorists were actually in some way related to the people who I helped get arrested after I broke up the fight outside the pub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police turned up, arrested the two attackers, took them away, and so when I was in the restaurant just before the terror attack, and then I saw the terrorists roll up, I actually thought they were somehow related to the two people I&#8217;d helped put away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service took place earlier today outside Southwark Cathedral to mark the eighth anniversary of the London Bridge terror attacks. <\/p>\n<p>The gathering at the Permanent Memorial of the London Bridge Attack in Cathedral Square was attended by loved ones of those killed and injured, survivors, the local community and dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Ho said he planned to attend the memorial service to remember the eight victims who lost their lives that night. <\/p>\n<p>The memorial saw floral tributes laid at the memorial plaque, with organisers Living Bankside emphasising it provides an occasion for &#8220;reflection and solidarity with all faiths and those of no particular faith&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"30b9e\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5edeb356a1e0ab9f0a90aedb30a590c0\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205446%203631'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/tower-bridge-and-city-hall-in-london.jpg\" width=\"5446\" height=\"3631\" alt=\"Tower Bridge and City Hall in London\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The London Bridge terror attack happened eight years ago <\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p>The survivor added to GB News: &#8220;I&#8217;m actually going to go to the pub, and quite frankly, I&#8217;m going to have more than a few drinks to commemorate, to remember the people who, unfortunately, the eight people who didn&#8217;t make their way home that night,&#8221; he told GB News.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his wish that he could have helped the victims survive the attack. &#8220;God willing, I would give anything if I could have actually helped them make their way home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But sadly, they didn&#8217;t. So yes, I&#8217;ll be going to the pub and I&#8217;ll be drinking in their memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geoff Ho, who survived the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, has told GB News he would have preferred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,12,512,16,1259,15,6225],"class_list":{"0":"post-155852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sgg","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-news","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114621686123099277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}