Quiet hero

Synagogue victim stepped up to stop knifeman getting in

- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

ONE of the men killed in the Manchester synagogue attack turned from quiet man to hero to protect others, his funeral heard.

Adrian Daulby, 53, leapt from the seat used by his family for generations to block the doors as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, tried to get in to attack.

Adrian died alongside Melvin Cravitz, 66, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester.

Friends and family gathered at Agecroft Jewish Cemetery in Salford to pay respects yesterday.

Rabbi Daniel Walker, who also helped barricade the doors at the synagogue last Thursday, said Adrian was in the place where his late father and grandfather used to sit.