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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Hollie Bone & Paul Byrne & Charlotte Hadfield

Terrorist's last words to taxi driver before Women's Hospital bombing

The terrorist who blew himself up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital said only two words before the blast.

David Perry felt an odd and "chilling silence" behind him as he tried to make small talk with Emad Al-Swealmeen during the five minute journey from his flat in Rutland Avenue to Liverpool Women's Hospital on Remembrance Day last year.

One year on, David 46, said he is still haunted by the “clown-like” grin on the bomber's face as he glanced at him in his rear-view mirror seconds before the bomb went off. David feels it was “fate” he was the driver to collect the bomber on November 14 last year, the Mirror Online.

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