A HEROIC junior doctor who rushed to the aid of a victim of a knife attack has been given a prestigious bravery award.

Dr Matt Smith, 28, had just finished an 11-hour shift on December 5, 2015, when he happened on the aftermath of an attack by Muhiddin Mire, 30, in Leytonstone station.

Seeing Mire’s victim, Lyle Zimmerman, in a pool of blood with cuts to his throat and no one helping him, he ignored his own safety and rushed to his side.

Dr Smith administered first aid to the 56-year-old musician while Mire was still threatening people in the station with a large knife.

He carried the man up the steps inside the station to safety while the police tasered Mire to the floor.

While giving evidence at Mire’s trial in June, he said he thought the neck wound to Mr Zimmerman’s neck was “life-threatening”.

He said: “I saw the victim sitting propped up against the barriers in a pool of blood."

Dr Smith said that when Mire came back into the ticket hall, "I was really very scared".

He added: "I obviously feared for my own safety and wanted to run away... but I didn't want to leave Mr Zimmerman.

"So I asked him if he could stand up. He said, 'I think so'."

Dr Smith managed to get the musician, who was showing signs of shock, back up to the train platform to safety until paramedics arrived.

He was awarded the City of London Sheriffs’ Award for Bravery by the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals at a ceremony in the Square Mile.

Dr Smith was nominated for the award by Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, the most senior Judge at the Old Bailey, who tried the Leytonstone Underground Terror case in June of this year.

Judge Hilliard commended Dr Smith for "courageously and selflessly" remaining with the victim throughout the attack.

The Sheriffs’ Award was introduced shortly after the 7/7 tube and bus bombings in 2007 to recognise outstanding acts of bravery.

Schizophrenic Mire was sentenced to life and is being held in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, until he is deemed mentally able for a transfer to prison.