The terror attack on Liverpool Women’s Hospital last year had the potential to be bigger than the Manchester Arena bombing, according to a senior coroner.
On November 14 last year, Emad Al Swealmeen pulled up as a passenger in a Delta taxi outside the maternity hospital's entrance and set off a bomb at 10.59am. Al Swealmeen died when his homemade explosive containing 1,000 ball bearings went off in the back of the car and shattered the windscreen.
The taxi driver, David Perry, made a miraculous escape from the vehicle after the explosion on Remembrance Sunday. Addressing a meeting of Liverpool Council’s social care and health committee at Liverpool Town Hall, Andre Rebello, said how “unfortunate it was that it happened” and fortunate it wasn’t worse.
