Police recall chaos of London Bridge terror attacks

Police recall chaos of London Bridge terror attacks as paramedics waited 100 yards away for FORTY minutes while members of the public tried to save victims' lives Paramedics were preoccupied with setting up command structures  Junior police officers made frantic radio calls seeking medical back up  Paramedics claimed they never received the calls from their control room  PC Mia Kerr said she looked for paramedic backup for more than 40 minutes 

By Arthur Martin for the Daily Mail

Published: 01:01 BST, 16 May 2019 | Updated: 01:02 BST, 16 May 2019

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PC Mia Kerr came across two members of the public trying to save a badly wounded victim in a courtyard. The young officer drew her baton and guarded the courtyard’s entrances so they could treat 36-year-old Frenchman Sebastien Belanger

PC Mia Kerr came across two members of the public trying to save a badly wounded victim in a courtyard. The young officer drew her baton and guarded the courtyard’s entrances so they could treat 36-year-old Frenchman Sebastien Belanger

Paramedics did not know where at least four victims of the London Bridge terror attack lay dying, an inquest heard yesterday.

Ambulance crews waited 100 yards away for nearly 40 minutes as members of the public and police officers desperately tried to save the seriously injured.

As the atrocity unfolded, junior police officers made a series of frantic radio calls for paramedics to help them. But senior ambulance staff claimed they never received those calls from the police or their own control room.

Instead, they were preoccupied with setting up incident command structures, rather than treating the injured, the Old Bailey heard.

Senior paramedic Andrew Beasley even admitted he still did not know where four victims lost their lives, two years after the attack.

The absence of paramedics meant badly wounded victims had to be carried to ambulances.

PC Clint Wallis, who was one of

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