A security guard who ran to help hero cabbie David Perry after the Liverpool hospital bomb has told how the taxi driver 'acted very bravely and very quickly'.
Darren Knowles said Mr Perry only realised it was a bomb when he spotted a red light flashing on the attackers vest.
Emad Al Swealmeen, who was a passenger in the taxi, died when when the bomb exploded outside Liverpool Women's Hospital shortly before the two minutes' Remembrance Sunday silence on November 14.
Mr Knowles, from Runcorn, Cheshire, was standing only metres away from the taxi when the blast happened.
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He told BBC North West Tonight he heard a bang that 'wasn't a very loud' and initially thought the car had backfired.
He said: "[Mr Perry] said: 'Been blown up, been blown up. There's a bomb in my car'.
"[The taxi driver] seen a little red light on the vest the passenger was wearing, that gave it away for him to do something and he acted very quickly and very bravely."
Mr Knowles said he was still 'very shocked' but was trying to 'keep himself busy' and 'not to dwell on it too much'.
He added: "I'm still having the odd flashbacks but I'm coping.
"I'm just glad the taxi driver's OK."
Mr Perry has previously said it's a 'miracle' he survived.
He said: "I feel like it's a miracle that I'm alive and so thankful that no one else was injured in such an evil act.
"I now need time to try to come to terms with what's happened and focus on my recovery both mentally and physically."
Counter Terrorism Policing North West are continuing to investigate the explosion.
In a statement on Thursday afternoon police said a search at a property of Rutland Avenue in relation to the incident had finished and the cordon had been lifted.
'Our investigation remains very much ongoing', the CTPNW statement added.
