An Australian couple have described watching the horrific London Tube attack unfold on their daily commute to work.
Lucy Steadman, 24, from Brisbane, has lived in London for three years and catches the train through Parsons Green to work each day with her partner Fabian, 29.
But on Friday, their commute became a terrifying journey when the pair witnessed a home-made bomb explode.
Lucy Steadman, 24, from Brisbane, has lived in London for three years now and catches the train through Parsons Green to work each day with her partner Fabian, 29 (pictured)
‘My boyfriend and I had just got onto the tube, one stop before Putney Bridge to go to work, so it was like any other morning really,’ Ms Steadman said
‘My boyfriend and I had just got onto the tube, one stop before Putney Bridge to go to work, so it was like any other morning really,’ Ms Steadman said (pictured the chaos outside Parsons Green)
‘My boyfriend and I had just got onto the Tube, one stop before Putney Bridge to go to work, so it was like any other morning really,’ Ms Steadman said.
‘I was running a bit late for work so almost left without him to make up time, but decided to wait in the end.’
As they boarded the train together, along with hundreds of other commuters, talk turned to their plans for Friday night and the rest of the weekend.
As they boarded the train together along with hundreds of other commuters talk turned to their plans for Friday night and the rest of the weekend (pictured Lucy Steadman)
All thoughts of days off vanished as the train pulled into Parsons Green.
‘We were standing close to the doors of the Tube and then I heard some horrible screaming and saw people sprinting down the platform toward the exit,’ she said.
‘The station only has one staircase out so people were rushing for that. I panicked and ran for that too thinking Fabian was just behind me but we got separated.’
Ms Steadman stopped in fear, frantically searching for her partner, but she was pushed further away from him in the chaos.
‘At that point I didn’t know what had happened yet and I thought it might be someone with a gun or a knife, so I wasn’t sure if the threat was still there or not,’ she said.
Ms Steadman (pictured) stopped in fear, frantically searching for her partner, but she was pushed further away from him in the chaos
‘I just had to focus on staying upright because I could see people in front of me falling and getting trampled on.
‘At some point too many people had fallen down so we couldn’t move on any further and someone at the bottom of the stairs was yelling ‘go back, go back,” she continued.
‘I thought there may have been danger at the station entrance too.’
‘At some point too many people had fallen down so we couldn’t move on any further and someone at the bottom of the stairs was yelling ‘go back, go back,” she continued (pictured Ms Steadman)
As soon as the crowd realised the immediate threat had subsided people began helping others, particularly those that had fallen on the stairs.
Ms Steadman described seeing people’s belongings ‘everywhere’ and trying to collect certain phones and bags to return them to their rightful owners.
She eventually found her partner Fabian, who was thankfully uninjured expect for some minor bruising, and they made their way out of the Tube.
‘It all happened so fast and I think I’m still shaking,’ she said.