PRAISED: Chris Cox, pictured helping at a fundraising event in Weston last year
A LIFEBOAT volunteer used his skills to save a distressed woman who was brandishing a knife in a shop in Weston-super-Mare.
Chris Cox, a volunteer member of the seagoing crew at Weston RNLI, was walking into a shop in the town on December 27 when he was warned to stay out as an 18-year-old woman was inside with a knife.
Instead of walking away, Chris walked into the shop and took time to talk to the woman, who suffered from mental illness, and managed to calm her down.
Richard Spindler, lifeboat operations manager at Weston RNLI, said: “Coxy, in the true spirit of the RNLI stepped in in someone’s hour of need, not once but twice, and all within the space of an hour. “
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