A Hayes-based driver has been put up for a bravery
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award after heroically leaping from his truck and stopping a vicious assault in the street.
Robert Clements (above right) who works for Lane Group on a contract with Laura Ashley, was returning to Lane's Hayes depot when he saw a young man being assaulted by two older attackers. Clements and another man drove the attackers away and then returned to check that their victim was all right.
His rescue was witnessed by Hayes MP John McDonnell (above, centre) who put Clements forward for a local hero award run by a Hayes newspaper, The MP also invited him and Matt Richards, Lane Group's manager for the Laura Ashley contract, to tea in Parliament.
Clements says: "Really, I was only acting on instinct during the incident but it is very nice to have your actions acknowledged in this way,"