London Bridge terror: Hero Sunday Express journalist Geoff Ho returns to Borough Market
The Sunday Express business editor posted a picture of himself enjoying a fruit juice and smiling with a friend after he was released from hospital. He tweeted: "Made a detour on the way home to support all my friends at @boroughmarket. Totally worth it." Earlier, he revealed he had been discharged from the Royal London Hospital, having recovered from being stabbed in the neck as he fought off the attackers during the siege.
GETTY/TWITTER Geoff Ho posted a picture of himself at Borough Market after it reopened earlier on Wednesday
In another tweet, he spoke of explaining to a New York Times reporter at the market: "If you stop living your life & doing what you do, you become a victim. They win. That ain't happening." Some people were moved to tears when the market reopened at 10am on Wednesday morning after a minute’s silence for the victims of the attack. Donald Hyslop, the chair of trustees of Borough Market, said: "Today we begin to reclaim and remake this place with you." Last week, Mr Ho sent a message of defiance and reconciliation from his hospital bed last night. “London stay strong, let the healing begin,” the Sunday Express business editor urged.
TWITTER The Sunday Express business editor's tweet on his return to the famous market
“The people who attacked me were not representative of Islam and my Muslim friends – with whom I stand in solidarity.” Geoff – seen covered in blood being led away by the emergency services – puts his survival and that of those he defended down to his martial arts expertise. He said: “It was the knife work we do in training that saved my life. They just came at me with blades. Then I saw the ‘suicide vests’. They were animals.” Now recovering in the Royal London Hospital after surgery, his main concern is “for the bereaved or those whose loved ones are injured or still missing”. He recalled the events in his regular haunt, Borough Market.
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GETTY Messages posted on a wall close to London Bridge in honour of the victims
“I had just left the Wheatsheaf pub after watching the Champions League final and saw two people attacking the lone bouncer. “They weren’t armed and I held them off until the police arrived. I thought ‘job done, now for some beer and food’.” He headed five doors down to the Black & Blue restaurant, then minutes after he posted a “not on my watch” message on Facebook about the bouncer incident, the terrorists arrived. “Most of my friends and the staff hid under tables, but one was frozen behind me,” he said. “I knew I had to face the attackers down. I had the best chance of delaying them until the police arrived.
MARK KEHOE Mr Ho spent the past few days recovering in hospital