Paramedics couldn’t get in for 40mins

MOST paramedics were prevented from helping the victims of the London Bridge terror attack for nearly 40 minutes.

Ambulance crews were ordered to wait 100 yards away in case more terrorists were at large, leaving police officers to try to save lives.

The inquest into the atrocity heard these officers were ‘desperately in need of paramedics’. Three arrived within 15 minutes of the start of the attack but were being held back after the three fanatics were shot by police because there were fears that there were more of them.

There were also concerns that there was a bomb in the van the killers had crashed into railings.

PC Clint Wallis, one of the first officers to arrive, tried to save the lives of three of the victims by giving them CPR. All three died at the scene. Gareth Patterson QC, acting for six of the victims, asked the officer: ‘Was it your understanding you were desperately in need of paramedics?’

PC Wallis said: ‘We were asking members of the public if they could see paramedics to flag them down.

‘It became quite clear that there were no paramedics being sent to us and they were probably being held at a rendezvous point away from the scene.’