Brit gardener hero Craig dies trying to save Ukraine fighter

Volunteer medic in the Ukraine Craig Stanley Mackintosh, aged 48, has been killed in an ambush.

Craig, a landscape gardener, from Thetford Norfolk, is said by witnesses to have been shot in the neck outside the  city of Kharkiv as he tried to save a Ukrainian fighter.

He had been refused entry to the armed forces because of an inoperable cist near his brain. But he decided to go to the ‘front line’ anyway.

Craig had two daughters and two step-daughters.

His sister said he had “died in action saving lives as a true hero”.

“It had always been his dream to serve in the armed forces, and watching the conflict unfold and seeing the devastation, he decided he wanted to go out to help people.”

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