An engaged couple have been captured on CCTV enjoying a stroll along London Bridge just seconds before the bride-to-be was killed by a terrorists' van.
Social worker Christine Archibald, 30, told fiance Tyler Ferguson she loved him and gave him a 'passionate' kiss not realising that at the same moment a rented Renault Master 'hurtled' towards them.
Ms Archibald and her fiance were walking across the bridge after they had been for dinner at a Thai restaurant during a weekend visit to the capital on June 3, 2017.
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Social worker Christine Archibald, 30, told fiance Tyler Ferguson she loved him and gave him a 'passionate' kiss not realising that at the same moment a rented Renault Master 'hurtled' towards them
The inquest heard how they switched sides moments before the attackers' began targeting groups of pedestrians in their rented van
Mr Ferguson told of his last night with his fiancee in a statement read at the Old Bailey today.
'Chrissy stopped out of nowhere, grabbed me close to give me a passionate kiss after telling me how much she loved me.'
The inquest heard how they switched sides moments before the attackers' began targeting groups of pedestrians in their rented van.
Mr Ferguson said he saw a man screaming as he ran down the road and heard the screeching of tyres as the vehicle approached from behind.
'I then noticed a really large white Transit van on the pavement hurtling towards us,' he said.
'It was immediately clear this was an act of violence and not an accident.'
Mr Ferguson told of his last night with his fiancee in a statement read at the Old Bailey today. He said: 'Chrissy stopped out of nowhere, grabbed me close to give me a passionate kiss after telling me how much she loved me'
Mr Tyler said he heard a 'loud thud', adding: 'I then looked for Chrissy. She was no longer next to me.
I realised she had been hit by the van.'
She had been killed 'almost instantaneously', according to a pathologist.
CCTV footage played in court, which was described by counsel to the inquest Jonathan Hough QC as 'graphic and distressing', showed Ms Archibald being struck by the van on the third time it had mounted the 10cm curb.
Mr Ferguson was seen to run after the van and crouch down over her body, which had been carried down the road under the chassis.
He said: 'She was lying on her back, her dress had been ripped off by the van, so she was naked at this stage.
CCTV footage played in court, which was described by counsel to the inquest Jonathan Hough QC as 'graphic and distressing', showed Ms Archibald being struck by the van on the third time it had mounted the 10cm curb
'I remember looking down at her mangled body as she convulsed and released the physical life from her body.'
Mr Ferguson said he had to 'scoop out fragments of teeth' to clear his fiance's airway before performing CPR - but saw blood come from her mouth as he tried to breathe into it.
'I knew in this moment she was dead,' he said.
