Image copyright Gillian Assor Image caption Gillian says she now has an “unusual” and “unbelievable” bond with Tommy
“I’m not a protagonist, ” says Gillian Assor, six months after frustrating a suicide on a railway bridge near London. “I just happened to be walking past.”
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According to digits from the British Transport Police, 2018 has heard a 20% rise in member states of the public intervening to stop people killing themselves on railways.
In May, while out stepping her hound, Gillian became one of those people.
“At first I didn’t know what it was, ” she tells the BBC, reciting her expedition back home past the connection. “But as we got closer, I realised it was a person.
“They were announcing, hysterically crying and acquiring noises.”
