Almost £300,000 raised for delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack

‘I think every parent would do the same.’ Caio Benicio in Dublin on 24 November 2023. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

Almost £300,000 has been raised for a delivery driver who intervened in an attack by a man suspected of attacking children outside a school in Dublin.

Caio Benicio was on his motorbike in Dublin city centre when he spotted the attack on Thursday. He said he used his helmet to hit the assailant “with all my power”.