The video Waleed Aly says you SHOULDN’T be allowed to see: The Project host claims vision of Sydney knifeman on the run during his stabbing rampage is too ‘traumatic’ for Australians
- Mert Ney, 21, was restrained by civilians after allegedly slashing throat of woman
- He also allegedly stabbed a woman in the back close to city’s Wynyard Station
- The Project’s Waleed Aly said he couldn’t see himself apprehending the suspect
- He added he did not think the public should see footage of the shocking attack
- ‘I feel like we are being traumatised by watching it,’ the presenter told co-hosts
The Project host Waleed Aly has described vision of a knife-wielding man rampaging through Sydney’s CBD as too ‘traumatising’ for the Australian public to watch.
Mert Ney, 21, was restrained by heroic bystanders after allegedly slashing the throat of a woman in an apartment block and injuring another by stabbing her in the back.
Footage showed the man running down the road before being subdued near the corner of King and Clarence Street by members of the public – who used a milk crate and chairs to pin him down.
Project host Waleed Aly has described shocking vision of a knife-wielding man rampaging through Sydney’s CBD (pictured) as too ‘traumatising’ for the Australian public to watch
Discussing the rampage on The Project, Aly told his co-hosts he did not think the videos of the incident needed to be broadcast.
‘It must obviously help with investigations and stuff, but seeing it all unfold … I don’t know,’ he said.
‘I feel like we are being traumatised by watching it. I’m not sure that trauma helps us in any way.’
The presenter and the show’s panel praised the efforts of those who stepped in to apprehend the alleged attacker, with Aly saying he would likely not have intervened were he in the same situation.
‘I tried to imagine myself in it and I don’t think there is any chance of me approaching, I reckon,’ he said.
‘As I was watching the vision, I tried to imagine myself in it. I don’t think there is any chance of me approaching.
‘You don’t know until you’re in (the situation) but I can’t imagine myself doing it.’
Discussing the stabbing spree on The Project, Aly told his co-hosts he did not think the videos of the incident needed to be broadcast in the media
The presenter and the show’s panel praised the efforts of those who stepped in to apprehend the alleged attacker (pictured member of the public pinning alleged attacker down with a milk crate), with Aly saying he would likely not have intervened were he in the same situation
‘I was just acting on instinct’: Hero bystander recounts the moment he pinned crazed knifeman to the ground using a MILK CRATE after stabbing a woman and attacking others in Sydney’s CBD
A heroic bystander has managed to stop a blood-soaked man who allegedly went on a stabbing rampage at Sydney’s Wynyard train station on Tuesday just after 2pm.
A man wearing a grey hoodie covered in blood and wielding a large knife could be seen yelling in the street as hundreds of people fled for their lives.
Luke O’Shaughnessy who watched as the incident unfolded, managed to subdue the crazed attacker by putting a milk crate over his head.
‘It was terrifying mate, it was really bad,’ his brother Paul told Daily Mail Australia.
A heroic bystander has managed to stop a blood-soaked man who allegedly went on a stabbing rampage at Sydney’s Wynyard train station on Tuesday just after 2pm
‘I was just acting on instinct really. We all just kind of followed suit and just did what we could’.
‘Obviously there’s something clearly wrong with him, he didn’t look normal or anything like that’.
‘It was an intense moment. I’ve got a lot of emotion running high as well. It was pretty scary stuff’.
Paul O’Shaughnessy, who owns a recruitment company on nearby King Street, said they heard ‘a big kerfuffle and shouting’.
‘Luke, my brother, popped his head out and said ‘what’s going on? There’s a guy holding a knife’,’ he said.
Luke O’Shaughnessy chased the attacker and managed to pin him to the ground
Police have said the alleged attacker from Blacktown in the city’s west did not have links to any terrorist organisations, and acted alone.
‘Information was found on him that would suggest he had some ideologies related to terrorism, but he has no apparent links to terror organisations,’ NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said.
The alleged attacker is expected to be charged later on Tuesday evening.
Dramatic picture taken by a tourist in the back seat of a cab shows the crazed knifeman carrying a 30cm blade as a middle aged businessman attempts to bring him to the ground with a chair
By Hannah Moore For Daily Mail Australia
A gripping photograph shows the moment a brave onlooker holding a wicker chair prepared himself to restrain a crazed knifeman in the Sydney CBD.
The man can be seen outside the Hotel CBD on King Street, as the knifeman, believed to be about 25, clutches his knife tightly.
Pictured: The moment a brave onlooker prepares to restrain a crazed knifeman on a city road
The picture was taken by tech worker Ayusha, who was on holiday in Sydney.
‘We just came across the guy with a knife on the street,’ she captioned the image. ‘Apparently he had some blood on his shirt. We are all safe in the car.’
The knifeman was seen jumping on top of a black Mercedes shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’ and brandishing his weapon moments before the businessman ran towards him with a chair.
‘Oi,’ the businessman yelled, ready with his chair.
‘Shoot me, shoot me in the f***ing head,’ the knifeman yelled as he stormed through the intersection.
Stunned onlookers were scene frozen in the street as the man with a knife began his stabbing rampage through the streets
Dramatic footage showed the man, wearing a grey hooded jumper and holding a large knife, jumping on top of a Mercedes while screaming ‘shoot me in the head’ at about 2pm on Tuesday, before being held to the ground by passers-by
Dramatic footage showed the man, wearing a grey hooded jumper and holding a large knife, jumping on top of a Mercedes while screaming ‘shoot me in the head’ at about 2pm on Tuesday.
Brave witnesses were able to tackle the man and pin his head down with a milk crate until police arrived and arrested him as hundreds of workers gathered.
In other footage, the alleged attacker was seen running down the pavement and at one point kicked a parked bicycle at a member of the public.
Police praised on Tuesday evening civilians, fire fighters and ambulance staff for preventing ‘what could have been a much worse situation’.
The Transport Management Centre urged motorists to avoid King Street – south of the city’s Wynyard Station – following the alleged attack on Tuesday afternoon
One witness who lived at the apartment block next door told The Sydney Morning Herald he heard a woman screaming inside Clarence House apartments and officers then struggled to enter the building.
‘The officer and the young man tried to gain the attention of those inside by pressing on multiple apartment buzzers.
‘Soon after a young woman came to the door, a mobile phone in one hand. Visibly distressed, the woman appealed to the officer: ‘you’ve got to help me.”
Officers on Tuesday evening were searching the alleged attacker’s home in Blacktown