Hero ‘crate man’ who helped stop alleged Sydney knifeman was long-time Darwinite

ONE of the heroes involved in stopping a man who is alleged to have killed a woman and injured another in this week’s Sydney knife incident, is an award-winning bartender from Darwin

Jase Shore was a well-known multi-award winning bartender during his many years in Darwin

ONE of the heroes involved in stopping Mert Ney, 20, who is alleged to have killed a woman and injured another in this week’s Sydney knife incident, was an award-winning bartender from Darwin.

Jase Shore was in the Australian Army before leaving to pursue a career in the hospitality industry.

Mr Shore, who left the Territory recently after spending close to 13 years here, was one of a group of heroic bystanders to take on Ney, who was running through Sydney’s CBD allegedly threatening people with a knife.

Hero Jase Shore, aka ‘crate man’, was a long-time Territorian. Picture: 9News

Mr Shore has been immortalised as “crate man”, alongside John Bamford, who picked up a chair to stop the alleged rampager.

The two were instrumental in pinning Ney to the ground.

“The lawyer John (Bamford) had a chair, I had picked up a crate and it was the first time he had his back towards us,” Mr Shore said.

“John had struck him and I jumped on top of him with the crate and John picked up the chair and put it on his body.”

He said he then put the crate on the man’s head to help pin him on the ground and to stop him from reaching into his pockets.

He said looking back at the whole ordeal was confronting.

“It’s kind of scary to look back at it. I’m more emotional that a young girl was the first victim,” he said.

“It’s quite confronting to have detained a person who had only just done that to someone.”

Mr Shore said the milk crate was just there at the right time.

“It was just there to give myself some space,” he said.

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He said he was happy that people had put the humble milk crate on a pedestal and hoped it could represent the Australian spirit.

“To be honest it’s the Aussie spirit to be able to make light of a serious incident,” he said.

“There is a serious factor in it (that) he could have injured a lot more people and someone has died.

“Hopefully it can be a tool to raise awareness of mental health and violence towards women.”