{"id":1029464,"date":"2021-11-18T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029464"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:15:05","slug":"someone-has-blown-me-up-guard-recalls-drivers-terror-after-uk-hospital-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/someone-has-blown-me-up-guard-recalls-drivers-terror-after-uk-hospital-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Someone Has Blown Me Up&#039; \u2013 Guard Recalls Driver&#039;s Terror After UK Hospital Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsomeone-has-blown-me-up-guard-recalls-drivers-terror-after-uk-hospital-blast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The security guard who helped the taxi driver at the centre of an attempted terror bombing at Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital has spoken out for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>50-year-old Darren Knowles rushed towards the cab at the centre of the maternity hospital blast right as a national two-minute silence had been due to take place in honour of the war dead for Remembrance Sunday, aiding driver David \u2018Dave\u2019 Perry after he stumbled from his shattered vehicle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/15\/hero-cab-driver-locked-bomber-inside-taxi-before-blast-at-uk-hospital-reports\/\">reportedly<\/a> locking the bomber inside to stop him getting at anyone else.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDavid was just so disorientated and confused,\u201d Knowles said of the incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/liverpool-bomb-hero-stumbled-taxi-25484682\">comments<\/a> to the left-leaning <em>Mirror<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was trying to tell us, \u2018There is a passenger, there is a passenger\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to say to him, \u2018Is he still in there\u2019, and he was saying, \u2018He has tried to blow me up, he has tried to blow me up\u2019,\u201d the security guard recalled.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1347150259067\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bomber and Alleged Christian Convert Al Swealmeen Abused \u2018Dysfunctional\u2019 Asylum System to Stay in UK: Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ujPWbVz35w\">https:\/\/t.co\/ujPWbVz35w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1460980041597140995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt all happened in a flash\u2026 I heard a loud bang and thought it was mechanical failure in the taxi. I thought the engine had caught fire,\u201d Mr Knowles recounted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then I saw the taxi driver run out. He was panicking and screaming, \u2018Someone has blown me up\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grabbed him and tried to get him to safety as quickly as possible because I had a feeling something else was going to go off,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not think about myself I was thinking of getting the taxi driver to safety before anything else went up\u2026 I handed him over to a nurse. He went into the staff entrance and sat down there and that was the last I saw of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was just in a state of shock. God bless the guy. I wish him a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6878612716763\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Fault of Our Weak Leaders\u2019: Farage Slams Govt After Terror Attack, Threat Level Raised <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OoXrxAg2TH\">https:\/\/t.co\/OoXrxAg2TH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1460332524723339268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The suspect in the attack has been named as&nbsp;Emad Al Swealmeen, a bogus asylum seeker who was at large in the United Kingdom despite having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10215949\/Poppy-Day-suicide-bomber-local-mosque-day-day-Ramadan.html\">reportedly<\/a> had asylum claims and subsequent appeals refused by officials, the First Tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, and the&nbsp;Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber no less than four times from late 2014 to 2015, and a fresh appeal refused in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>While it has been said that the migrant, who initially claimed to be from Syria but was believed by the authorities to be Jordanian and is now reported to have been an Iraqi, was a convert the Christianity, sources speaking to <em>The Telegraph<\/em>&nbsp;now say he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/got-lucky-say-investigators-believe-liverpool-bomb-set-accident\/\">at mosque \u201call day every day\u201d<\/a> during the Islamic festival of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/09\/12\/seventy-per-cent-rejected-asylum-seekers-finland-convert-christianity-appeal-deportation\/\">Bogus conversions<\/a> to Christianity are common among illegal migrants from Islamic countries, where apostasy \u2014 leaving Islam \u2014 is often punishable by death, throughout Europe, as it makes deporting them harder.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18806594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236621427-e1637245603593.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18806594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236621427-e1637245603593-1024x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hospital\" width=\"990\" height=\"740\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Royal Logistic Corps, Bomb Disposal team arrive at Sutcliffe Street in the Kensington neighbourhood as police continue to investigate the bomb blast at Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital, on November 17th, 2021 in Liverpool, England. Authorities named the suspect in Sunday\u2019s bombing as Emad Al Swealmeen, who detonated a homemade explosive while in the back of a taxi outside Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital. Mr Swealmeen died in the taxi, whose driver escaped with minor injuries. Four men arrested elsewhere in Liverpool following the blast were released without charge. (Photo by Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security guard who helped the taxi driver at the centre of an attempted terror bombing at Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital has spoken out for the first time. 50-year-old Darren Knowles &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}