Right smack under the broad afternoon Wednesday daylight, as two crazed men wielded terror and attacked and decapitated a UK soldier in Woolwich, David Cameron's country proved yet its bravery when a 48-year old mother walked right into the crime scene and talked with the emotionally charged madmen. Right then and there, it was a face-off between terror and bravery at its finest hour.

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett definitely didn't know what she was getting herself into. "Being a cub leader I have my first aid - so when I saw this guy on the floor I thought it was an accident," she said. The mother from Cornwall after all was on bus number 53 which happened to be travelling past the scene. She saw the bloodied man on the street, and on instinct, ordered the bus driver to stop, jumped off and raced to check the pulse of the bloodied man.

"Let me comfort him," she pleaded to the two men ­brandishing knifes and cleavers.

"Then I saw the guy was dead and I could not feel any pulse," she said. Mrs Loyau-Kennett was the very first person to have responded to the crime scene.

Witness accounts said she knelt beside the headless corpse, and appeared be to praying for him.

"She put her hands on his chest and I think she prayed for him. The poor man's head was beside her," a witness told The Mirror.

Later on, one of the two Islamic extremists went up to her and ordered her to move off the body.

"There was this black guy with a revolver and a kitchen knife, he had what looked like butcher's tools and he had a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives."

It was only then that Mrs Loyau-Kennett realised she was in the center of a terror attack.

Shocked and dazed, yet Mrs Loyau-Kennett rallied on, willing to control composure and gain hold of the situation.

"He was covered with blood. I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else. I thought these people usually have a message so I said 'What do you want?"

"I asked him if he did it and he said: "Yes." I asked why and he said: "Because he has killed Muslim people in Muslim countries."

"He said: "He was a British soldier." I said: 'Really?' And he said: "I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan."."

But fear slowly crept into Mrs Loyau-Kennett when she started to notice more weapons "and the guy behind him with more weapons as well."

But she also noticed people starting to gather around. Worried the madmen might go wild again," I thought OK, I should keep him talking to me before he noticed everything around him."

Apparently, the two Islamic extremists were waiting for the cops to arrive, eager to start again a terrorism showdown.

The man whom Mrs Loyau-Kennett talked to was "not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset. He was in full control of his decisions and ready to everything he wanted to do." She described him as much shier that his companion.

She told both of them, "Right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose, what would you like to do?" The bolder one said he would stay and fight.

Turning to the shier one, Mrs Loyau-Kennett asked, "Well, what about you? Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?"

And just like any mother, the cub leader thought of the school children who might anytime pass by the scene.

"I thought it was better having them aimed on one person like me rather than everybody there, children were starting to leave school as well."

Armed with knives, a machete and a gun, the two men were really waiting for the police, who took long to respond to the crime scene.

After 20 minutes, the police arrived. When the two men saw them, they started walking towards them.

"A female officer was out of the car in a flash and just shot them," the witness said.