A 26-year-old survivor stood beside the bomber on a Tube train and experienced a white flash before an explosion. He collided with the tunnel wall and fell into the gap between the wall and the tracks, suffering critical injuries. He says forgiveness is impossible because the attacker showed no hesitation and displayed vitriolic hatred. A former Army medic crawled across the tracks and pinched his femoral artery shut, likely preventing fatal blood loss. In hospital his heart stopped three times, with surgeons restarting it after prolonged effort, and he regained consciousness eight weeks later.
"There's nothing but hatred and contempt. There can't be forgiveness for such an act of evil. I really, truly don't believe that. I think forgiveness is something that you earn. Forgiveness is something that you would be genuinely sorry for what's happened. "I believe if he hadn't have killed himself, he'd have gone on to do it again. And I looked at that man in the face before he detonated that bomb and there was no hesitation."
Mr Biddle was found by a former Army medic who risked his life to crawl across the tracks to help him. He pinched Mr Biddle's femoral artery shut, just a minute before he would have bled out. In the hospital, Mr Biddle's heart stopped three times - the last time, the surgeon took nearly 15 minutes to get it going again by hand. Dan woke up eight weeks later.
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