Ignacio Echeverría

He was the son of Joaquín Echeverría Alonso,[1] an Asturian engineer, and Ana Miralles de Imperial Hornedo,[2] a lawyer.

Even though he was born in the Hospital General of Ferrol, La Coruña (Spain),[3] he was entered in the Civil Register of As Pontes de García Rodríguez, a town situated in the northwest of the province.

[6] After working in several banks and being unemployed, he decided to move to London, where he secured a position as a money laundering prevention analyst with HSBC.

The body lay in repose in the cemetery of Las Rozas de Madrid, with the Order of Civil Merit Grand Cross which he had been posthumously awarded placed on the coffin.

[9] The news of his death and the circumstances surrounding it saw significant coverage in both national and international press, with media dubbing him the Skateboard Hero.

[20] The Bar Association of Madrid expressed dismay for the murder of a former member and announcing its intention to participate in all tributes in his memory.

[1] The City Council of Alicante agreed to give his name to the San Juan Beach skate park.

[32] Five years after Echeverría's death at the London Bridge attack, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid has joined forces with his family in an effort to have him recognised as a saint.

[33] Preliminary steps for his beatification are underway led by the Auxiliary Bishop Juan Antonio Martínez Camino.