THE father of 7/7 bomb victim Carrie Taylor has spoken of his distress at hearing the details of his daughter’s last moments.

So far John and June Taylor, of Uplands Road, Billericay, have been to every day of the inquest into the deaths of the 52 people killed in the terrorist attack on London.

Their 24-year-old daughter Carrie died after suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer blew up the carriage of a Circle Line Tube at Aldgate station.

The couple, who also have an older son, Simon, heard evidence from some of the last people to see Carrie alive, including a commuter trained in first aid who stopped to help and described cradling the former Mayflower County High pupil in his arms before she died.

Mr Taylor said: “We are all aware of what happened and how it happened and who did it, but we needed to fill in the gaps.

“It was extremely distressing for us to hear, but we will go every day that it relates to Carrie.

“Thankfully my boss has been very understanding and let me have the time off.”

The inquest is scheduled to last five months.

Another week is due to be given over to the Aldgate bombing before the coroner goes on to deal with the other attacks that devastated central London during the morning rush hour on July 7, 2005.

The inquest has heard evidence from some survivors of the Aldgate attack the emergency services took 20 minutes to arrive in the carriage where Carrie and six others lost their lives.

Mr Taylor, who has exercised his right as family of the deceased to question some of the witnesses, is hoping for an explanation of the emergency services response to the tragedy.

He said: “There are some question marks over how quickly they got there and there is more information to come.

“We heard from one of the survivors who walked back down the tunnel and saw fire officers standing on the platform.

“It appears the manager at Aldgate station got confused and sent the ambulance service to the wrong end of the tunnel.

“So they went first to Liverpool Street and London Underground staff were reluctant to call it a terrorist attack.

“I think the fire service need to tell us why they didn’t go down almost immediately.”