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Boxing coach who tried to save PC Palmer in 2017 terror attack is battling Covid
A BOXING coach who tried to save PC Keith Palmer in the 2017 Westminster terror attack is battling Covid in a Turkish hospital.
Former GB coach Tony Davis tweeted from Istanbul: “This is to show that Covid ain’t no joke!
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“This virus continues to suck the life out of me and just informed that I need the strongest drugs!
“Staff are fantastic but nobody speaks English.”
Tony, 47, who is now Bahrain’s national boxing coach, has been in hospital for more than a week.
The ex-Army sergeant thanked pals for arranging supplies of food, clothing and toiletries.
Tony is now Bahrain’s national boxing coach[/caption]
Tony, circled, was the first person to help PC Palmer, fatally knifed by terrorist Khalid Masood[/caption]
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Tony, from Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, was the first person to help PC Palmer, fatally knifed by terrorist Khalid Masood.
The Foreign Office said it was supporting Tony.
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