“After the earthquake, people said that God had left us”

“There were kids there, under the rubble, screaming. The mums were outside, just crying. No one can even imagine. It was unbearable.”

The modern day good Samaritans

“I thought I might see some vomit, one or two twisted ankles – at worst, a bloody nose from a drunken punch. Little did I know that, by one o’clock, I would be on my knees in the middle of a busy North London road, attending to a man who was critically ill after somebody stamped on his head stamped during a violent brawl.”