Woman cradling injured husband in iconic Westminster attack pic reveals he was hit hailing a taxi because she’s ‘scared of terror’ on the Tube – as couple speak of rebuilding their lives
THE woman seen cradling her injured husband at the scene of the Westminster attack has revealed they were hailing a taxi at the time because she's afraid of terror attacks on London's Tube.
Cara and Stephen Lockwood were on a day-trip from Oxfordshire to celebrate his birthday and had just left the London Aquarium where they had been swimming with sharks when vile terrorist Khalid Masood struck.
Speaking of the attack for the first time, Mrs Lockwood said: "We don’t go out a lot.
"This was a special occasion. It’s funny because I don’t like going on the Tube because I am scared that something might happen.
"And so we decided to get a taxi, obviously we were going to flag a taxi down.
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"What he looked like in the road. He was just covered in blood. It was all over him. Everyone goes through s*** you know. But not this.
"Not being ploughed down."
Mr Lockwood, talking about the iconic image, said: "This is me laying on the road and Cara is crouched over me, telling me to be OK, and it’s alright.
"I just see love in it really because in all that chaos and hatred all I can see is my wife looking after me.
"I feel like I am allowed to say we’ve won. We survived and we’re safe."
Mr Lockwood required a four hour surgery after receiving a deep cut to his leg.
At the time of the attack a documentary film crew were filming the BBC show Hospital - a fly-on-the-wall documentary - at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.
Many of the victims, including Mr Lockwood, was rushed to the hospital and his recovery was captured by film crews.
The wait to hear if he would recover was agonising for Mrs Lockwood.
Doctor's say he's lucky he did not have to have his leg amputated, but she's now desperate for the pair to return to normality.
She said: "It’s really hard when you spend so much time with somebody and they’re taken away from you and you suddenly really really alone.
"And you just want to take hold of him and give him a cuddle and a squeeze and take care of him but then he’s so fragile you just can’t touch him.
"I want him back home.
"I want to have a Friday night on the sofa with a pizza and a beer."
In the attack, terrorist Masood was subsequently shot outside Parliament after attacking cops with a knife, leaving PC Keith Palmer dead.
Police declared the attacks outside Parliament in Westminster as a terrorist incident.
Masood, driving a 4×4 vehicle, mowed down people on the pavements on Westminster Bridge before crashing into the gates outside the Houses of Parliament.
Six people died, including the attacker, and dozens more were injured.