Hero stopped Liverpool title parade rampage then ‘went for a pint’ with his brother ...Middle East

A hero has described how he saved lives by bringing a car rampage at Liverpool FC’s title parade to a halt – then walked off and “went for a pint” with his brother.

Dan Barr, a 41-year-old former soldier, bravely jumped into the back of a two-tonne Ford Galaxy as it was being driven through crowds by Paul Doyle on the evening of 26 May.

There was a “scuffle” before Barr managed to force the automatic vehicle into park mode, bringing it to a standstill.

More than 130 people were injured in the attack.

Doyle, a 54-year-old father of three, has been sentenced to 21 years and sixmonths in prison after admitting a string of charges including dangerous driving, affray and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.

He had been on his way to pick up a friend from the parade when he simply “lost his temper” and mowed down pedestrians in an act of road rage, prosecutors said.

Footage was released showing Doyle driving aggressively, jumping a red light and cutting up other cars, before he reached Liverpool city centre.

Prosecutors said he then used his car “as a weapon” to injure dozens of people, including two babies and a 78-year-old woman, while shouting at them to “get out of the way”.

Hero: ‘I ran to car as quick as I could’

In his first interview since the attack, Barr modestly said of his actions: “I don’t think it’s anything special.”

But police and prosecutors were clear that lives would have been lost without his actions.

“There is no doubt in my mind that Doyle would have continued to drive and cause further injuries had Dan not acted with such bravery,” said senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector John Fitzgerald.

Barr, who was a sapper in the Royal Engineers and now works as a labourer, had been watching the title parade with thousands of other Liverpool fans when he recalled seeing Doyle’s car on Water Street and realising something was “not right”.

“I remember thinking I knew that we were on for some kind of trouble, but you couldn’t work out what it was, confusion, aggro, terrorism, or whatever, all sorts,” he said.

After colliding with a number of pedestrians, Doyle’s car ended up within a few metres of where Barr was standing and he decided to act.

“I just remember seeing an opportunity of his car being there, I think I was about five paces away,” said Barr.

“From my memory, it’s almost like there was a perfect gap from me to the door. There was no crowd or anything. So I ran in as quick as I could.”

Barr said his initial thought was to punch a window in an attempt to stop the car, but then he realised the rear door was unlocked.

“Just at the final moment I tried the door and it opened,” he said.

“I crawled inside. Bear in mind all the screaming and shouting and panic. As soon as I got into the back seat, he [Doyle] accelerated off, and the door slammed immediately behind me, as far as I remember, anyway.

“I do remember the audible contrast between that and then almost silence.

“It was really, really strange.”

Doyle attempted to fight back

Barr said his memories of being in the car are “blurry” but that he remembers hearing Doyle repeating words to the effect of: “Why won’t they move out my way?”

He recalled looking for the car keys to stop Doyle and feeling that the car was “gliding through” the crowd “indiscriminately”.

He said: “Eventually, this could be like two seconds, I don’t know, I remember seeing the automatic gear stick so from the back seat I reached through, and I’ve pushed it as far as I could, as hard as could, into ‘P’ which has brought the car to the stop.”

Barr said Doyle attempted to fight back and move the car out of park but that he had “no chance”.

“He wasn’t going to move my arm,” he continued.

“No way, he could try to chop it off or whatever.

“I remember that much.”

While holding the gearstick in place, he reached forward with his other hand and pressed Doyle’s seatbelt buckle.

“As soon as I pressed that he was gone,” he said.

“The crowd were trying to get him out, from what I remember, the windows were getting smashed, everybody was trying to get in, rightfully so.

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“I pressed the seatbelt and off he disappeared.”

Despite suffering a head injury and having been through a traumatic ordeal, Barr said he simply walked away from the car to meet his brother who had also been at the parade.

“I imagine I told him at a million miles an hour, something roughly that made sense, and then went for a pint,” he said.

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