Hero guard speaks after Aussie girl, 11, allegedly stabbed in London

A security guard saved an 11yo Aussie girl in a horror stabbing. Incredibly, he doesn’t consider himself to be a hero.

A security guard who saved a young Australian girl from a shock stabbing attack in London has shared details of the fight to disarm her alleged attacker — but, incredibly, he doesn’t consider himself to be a hero.

Abdullah, 29, was recognised as a hero at an Independence Day ceremony at the Pakistan High Commission in London on Wednesday, local time.

It came two days after he intervened when an 11-year-old Australian girl, who is believed to be from NSW, was stabbed up to eight times in a random attack.

The girl’s mother, 34, was found covered in her daughter’s blood but managed to escape injury as they visited the famous tourism spot of Leicester Square.

A 32-year-old man, Ioan Pintaru, appeared in a London court charged with attempted murder over the stabbing, which shocked the busy centre on Monday, local time.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Pintaru, who spoke through a translator, was a Romanian citizen with no fixed address.

Abdullah, the security guard who tackled a knife-wielding man, has spoken to the media. Picture: ABC

Abdullah works as security guard at the famous TWG Tea store. He told the ABC he ran toward the scene when he heard a scream about 11.30am.

“I saw outside there was a guy who was stabbing a girl, so as I saw him stabbing the girl, I started to run towards the guy,” he said.

“I jumped on the guy and grabbed his hand in which he was carrying a knife. I tackled him down on the floor and kicked the knife away from him.

“There was only one thought – to save the kid and save her mum, nothing else.”

The Met Police clarified that only the girl was injured in the attack. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Discarded clothes and medical equipment left in the TWG Tea shop in Leicester Square. Picture: James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images

Although he said he considers himself “brave” — he didn’t appear to consider his actions heroic.

Instead he said Pakistanis were “brave by heart” and that was the reason he “wasn’t scared” when he entered the fray.

Prosecutor David Burns told a court this week Mr Pintaru allegedly “approached the girl, placed her into a headlock, he’s then stabbed her eight times to the body”.

Ioan Pintaru is alleged to have stabbed the girl. Picture: Supplied.

He said the girl’s injuries were not life threatening, but that she required “plastic surgery for the injuries that she’s sustained”.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was providing consular assistance to two Australians injured in London.

“Owing to our privacy obligations we cannot provide further comment,” a DFAT spokesperson said.

The alleged attack came two weeks after three girls were allegedly murdered at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport, northwest England.

The deaths sparked widespread riots across the country, which police have since quelled.