Delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack to run in local elections

Caio Benicio leaped off his motorbike and used his helmet to hit the attacker, who had stabbed four people. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

On the afternoon of 23 November, Caio Benicio, a Brazilian Deliveroo rider, was cruising through Dublin city centre when he saw a melee on Parnell Street.

At first he thought it was a drunken brawl; then he realised a man with a knife was stabbing a child. Benicio leaped off his motorbike, removed his helmet and used it to hit the attacker, who fell to the pavement, stunned.