Suicide bomber Emad Al Swealmeen may have failed in his twisted mission to kill indiscriminately at Liverpool Women's Hospital a year ago.
However for many of those caught up in the chaos inflicted by the 32-year-old former pizza chef, the impact of his horrific plan continues to be felt. One of those people is 35-year-old Helen Edwards-Hughes, an Aigburth civil servant who was already going through a terrifying experience following a difficult birth in the Toxteth maternity hospital.
Helen spent 12 days in the hospital with her baby girl Penelope after an emergency caesarean on November 9. Due to strict covid rules at the time restricting the amount of time her husband, James Hughes, could spend at her bedside, she was alone with Penelope when the bomb went off.
