'SHE WAVED AT ME THEN IT WENT ALL WHITE'
Dad recalls terrifying moment he saw daughter, 15, wave at him as she emerged from Manchester Arena Ariana Grande gig before bombing left scene of ‘carnage’ behind her
THE DAD of a young victim of the Manchester terror attack who was visited by The Queen in her hospital bed today told of the terrifying moment he saw her wave at him seconds before the bomb went off behind her.
Dave Robson was waiting in the lobby of the city's Evening News Arena for his daughter Millie Robson, 15, and her friend when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck on Monday night, killing 22.
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He said: “We were at the top of the stairs and my partner Jane saw Millie and her friend Laura come out and waved and they started running towards us and the next thing there was a boom.
"It went white. It was just surreal. It went quiet
“And I saw Millie at the bottom of the stairs I ran over and picked her up and Jane picked up Laura and we ran but hit a dead end.
“There was a man there standing two foot from me whose face was bleeding.
“Then I saw Millie’s legs and I took me jumper off and jane took her shirt off and we tied it to try and stop the blood.
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“I picked her up and said, ‘Look at me, just look at me’ because obviously you can imagine the carnage. There were bodies and stuff and we got outside and carried her away from all of it.
“It was a nightmare.”
Millie Robson, 15, from Co Durham added: “Compared to other people I’m quite lucky.
“I was in the arena and I was just walking out to meet my dad because he was picking me and my friend up from the concert and then it went off behind us.
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“I remember the explosion and then my ears started ringing. I could hear people screaming.
“It was quite scary.
“My dad ran over to me and picked me up we tied jumpers around the two main wounds in my leg.
Mum Ruth Murrell who the Queen spoke to while her daughter Emily, 12, was in surgery, revealed that a friend of her daughter's was killed in the carnage.
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She told Her Majesty: “My daughter has just gone down to surgery, she is 12 years old.
“She was with a friend, had gone to the concert.
"Myself and daughter's friend's mum were waiting and she died.
"It just means such a lot that you've come today. I had shrapnel wounds - nuts and bolts. Mine's gone 15cm through and out the other side (pointed to leg).
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"But when you see these young children... you just think you need to get a grip, you need to battle on. They just inspire you.”
The Queen replied: “It's splendid isn't it. It is very remarkable. Well I hope the surgery goes alright.”
The Queen told victim Evie Mills, 14, and her parents: "It's dreadful. Very wicked. To target that sort of thing."
Evie, from Harrogate, had got tickets to the concert as a birthday present.
The monarch told the youngster she thought Ariana Grande was a "very good singer", adding: "She sounds very, very good.";
She told Evie's parents that "everyone is united" following the attack.
Earlier, the Queen described her shock at the targeting of young victims as she met several groups of clinicians, doctors, nurses and porters - all of whom had contributed to the emergency effort.
"The awful thing was that everyone was so young. The age of them," she told one member of staff.
Prime Minister Theresa May visited the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
The identities of further victims today including off-duty policewoman Elaine McIver as well as teenager Courtney Boyle and her stepdad Philip Tron.
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