Thirteen year old Brown belt Rebecca Kelly saved her 53 year old mother, Diane two nights ago.\u00a0 Diane was picking Rebecca up from her martial arts class when they were viciously armed attacked by 29 year old\u00a0 James Cordingley.\u00a0 Cordingley was high on heroin, crack cocaine and had drunk eight cans of strong lager at the time of the attack.\u00a0 Obviously a man who was feeling NO pain.\u00a0 The attack was motivated by threats from his drug dealer whom he owed over \u00a360.<\/p>\n
Cordingley grabbed Diane as she sat in her car and armed with a TASER attempted to stun her into submission.\u00a0 Still fresh from her evening lesson, Rebecca jumped into action without hesitating.\u00a0 She reported that she “just saw red<\/em>“.\u00a0 Rebecca went continued “Using the skills I\u2019d learned through my karate lessons I ran and jumped on to the man\u2019s back to pull him off my mum.<\/em>”\u00a0 She then ran back to her class in Horsforth, West Yorks<\/a>, and got three black belts to help her restrain Cordingley until the authorities arrived.\u00a0 Mom, Diane was fine and just a little bit proud!<\/p>\n Rebecca’s actions were commendable and she acted bravely in a moment of crisis.\u00a0 Because of her a criminal is off the streets for at least a while and her and her mother are safe.\u00a0 While the use of the unusual ‘run and jump on the man’s back’ technique is unorthodox it seems to have worked in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirteen year old Brown belt Rebecca Kelly saved her 53 year old mother, Diane two nights ago.\u00a0 Diane was picking Rebecca up from her martial arts class when they were viciously armed attacked by 29 year old\u00a0 James Cordingley.\u00a0 Cordingley was high on heroin, crack cocaine and had drunk eight cans of strong lager at