{"id":353382,"date":"2026-03-29T07:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:54:07","slug":"sculpture-unveiled-of-darryn-frost-who-fought-knifeman-with-tusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/353382\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture unveiled of Darryn Frost who fought knifeman with tusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculpture, using a mix of materials, shows Frost with a pained expression, a weight on his shoulder and holding a separate and broken narwhal tusk &#8211; with the piece unveiled to his family on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m002t58p\/extraordinary-portraits-series-5-1-honouring-remarkable-bravery\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC One programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I did love the idea of the separation with the tusk because I don&#8217;t want that to define me,&#8221; Frost told BBC Breakfast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was an important incident, but I&#8217;ve done so many other things since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of the sculpture of me that I hide from everyone&#8230; I never let anyone know what I was going through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want other people to suffer through my suffering&#8230; it made me have to be honest,&#8221; he said of the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder since the attack and said his memory and health had been badly affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frost, who was attending the conference for work, tackled Khan with two ex-offenders &#8211; John Crilly, who used a fire extinguisher on the attacker, and Steven Gallant, who helped confront him until police arrived on London Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sculpture, using a mix of materials, shows Frost with a pained expression, a weight on his shoulder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-353382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}