In the words of the UK Prime Minister Theresa May,Watch Batman Begins Online we experienced the worst of humanity as a bomber caused devastation at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night. But we also saw the best.

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Case in point Stephen Jones -- a homeless man who was near the scene of the Manchester Arena blast.

In an interview with ITV News, he describes rushing to help injured people after hearing a huge bang, which he initially thought was fireworks.

"Just because I'm homeless, it doesn't mean I haven't got a heart and I'm not human still," the man said.

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"It's just instinct to go and help if someone needed your help, and it was children, it was a lot of children with a lot of blood on them screaming and crying." 

He also described how he had to hold a woman's legs up. "We just held her legs up because we thought she was just going to bleed right out," he said."It had to be done, you had to help – if I didn't help I wouldn't be able to live with myself."

Many people sang the praises of the man on Twitter and suggested helping him to find accommodation:

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A JustGiving campaign was set up and surpassed £29,500:

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David Sullivan, the West Ham football club co-chairman, and his son then managed to track Jones down and offered him a reward:


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