Hundreds of emergency workers who responded to the in London were kept warm and fed a free meal by a Muslim-born restaurateur, who defied the evacuation order and decided to help out.
, who owns three restaurants in the area, kept his Belvedere Road Kurdish establishment, , open and refused payment from emergency staff who were working at nearby Westminster Bridge.
"As I prepared to close the restaurant, which was really busy at the time, I asked one of the officers if they had somewhere to use as a place to warm up and use facilities," Dogus told .
"When he told me they didn't, I said they could use here and I ended up keeping the place open late serving all the emergency staff I could.
"It's the very least I could do and I think it's what any Londoner would do if they were in the same situation as me. These people fight to keep us safe and alive. I couldn't take money from them. Some of them offered, but they are amazing people and there is no way I was going to charge them."
Dogus kept the restuarant open until about 11.30pm that night, and estimates he fed between 300 and 500 emergency personnel.
The father-of-two comes from a Kurdish refugee family, and was raised a Muslim, though he doesn't not currently practice any religion.
He lives and works in the area and crosses Westminster Bridge to take his kids to school.
"Being born into a Kurdish refugee family, I know what it's like to suffer from terrorist attacks," he told the newspaper.
"I feel very strongly about being a Londoner. We came together so quickly, and we don't and won't ever give in to these lunatics."
On March 22 terrorist Khalid Masood drove his car into crowds of people on Westminster Bridge and stabbed a police officer in the parliamentary precinct, leaving four people dead. He was shot dead by police.
