Both the Daily Mail and Sun running with the 'hero driver' angle. This is the Sun's version below, but here's the Daily Mail link for anyone who'd prefer a different source:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rance.htmlThis isn't the whole article below, but mainly the stuff about the Delta PHD. And according to the Daily Mail version he was discharged from hospital at 1830 yesterday evening, so the stuff below isn't quite up to speed in that regard.
Liverpool hospital explosion: Hero cabbie locks suspect in taxi before it explodeshttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16734365/ ... ro-cabbie/
Image: The SunA HERO taxi driver thwarted a Remembrance Day bomb tragedy by trapping a suspected terrorist in his cab.Brave Dave Perry leapt from the car and locked the doors as the device exploded at Liverpool Women’s Hospital yesterday — killing only the male passenger who carried the bomb.
Last night, David was stable in hospital with burns and shrapnel injuries, including damage to his ear.
Billy Darwin was among those paying tribute last night, posting online: “DAVID PERRY The Liverpool HERO!!!!”
He added: “David nearly paid the ultimate price to save others, apparently not giving anything a second thought besides making sure he went above and beyond to keep the people of Our City safe!”
Stephen Thomas added: “The driver is my mate, and spotted the passenger acting suspiciously, so he jumped out the car.”
He went on: “This guy blew himself up, but my friend is OK. He sustained a few injuries, burns, burst eardrums and some shrapnel, but he’s OK.”
Jay Keats responded: “Your mate is a hero, locking the car too. Well done that man.”
However cabbie Kev Cuthbertson posted: “It’s my mate who got blown up. He’s in a bad, bad way.
“He’s a fellow driver on Delta. He’s had his ear sewn back on, got burns and shrapnel wounds and other pretty serious injuries. He is a hero. When he noticed the bomb, he locked the scumbag in the car. But took the brunt of the blast.”
Last night, an online fundraising page was set up to help David.
The organiser wrote: “His quick-thinking possibly saved a lot of lives.”
The car blew up in Liverpool at 10.59am, killing its “suspicious-looking” passenger as the country prepared to mark the Fallen at 11am.
Pals of the injured taxi driver, who was in a stable condition last night, said he acted courageously to thwart a bombing of the hospital, where 30 babies are born each day.
Three men aged 21, 26 and 29 were later arrested elsewhere in the city under the Terrorism Act.
The blast occurred close to the Liverpool Cathedral which was hosting one of the country’s largest Remembrance Sunday services with more than 2,000 people. It is less than a mile from the hospital.
One source said Mr Perry grew suspicious after the passenger asked him to drive to the cathedral, so stopped at Liverpool Women’s Hospital instead to raise the alarm.
Cops are exploring a theory the detonator in a device exploded while the main charge did not.
Last night, security expert Will Geddes, of International Corporate Protection, suggested IS could be behind the blast because of:
TARGET — IS has targeted several hospitals and medical facilities in Afghanistan recently.
TIMING — around 11am on Remembrance Sunday as the nation honoured its war dead.
CAUSE — Mr Geddes suspects it was a VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device) also associated with the fanatics.
Graphic pictures and videos captured the private hire taxi with smoke and flames billowing from it near the main entrance to Liverpool Women’s Hospital as horrified staff and patients looked on. Detectives had not last night declared the blast a terrorist attack. Security sources said “all options are on the table”, as a major investigation began.
Spooks were urgently trying to find out the identity of the dead passenger to establish if he had appeared on any intelligence-led lists of terror suspects.
Sources said that the next 24 hours would be critical, with experienced anti-terror detectives from Scotland Yard also being asked to lend their expertise.
Merseyside Police confirmed it had handed over the investigation to colleagues from the North West Counter-Terrorism unit, which regularly targets Islamist and far-right inspired terror suspects.
David Perry (Image: Twitter)
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