The shame of some lawyers

May 2 2010 by Ian Robson, Sunday Sun

WHO was responsible for the deaths of 56 people who were killed in the London bombings known as 7/7?

You and I will say it was the four terrorists who detonated bombs on public transport in July 2005.

And we’d be right.

But it makes my blood boil when lawyers try to suggest that some of the victims would not have died if they had received better treatment in the minutes after the blast.

That’s what happened this week when it was revealed 17 victims survived the initial explosions.

There are already calls for an inquiry into so-called failures.

Solicitors and families of some of those who died afterwards are trying to say some of the victims could have been saved if they had been given timely treatment by the cops first on the scene.

Today it’s the police in the frame. Tomorrow it could be paramedics, doctors, nurses, even hospital receptionists.

Because there’s always going to be an ambulance chaser in a pin-striped suit who will argue that each of them could have done something quicker, or something different, that could have saved a life.

The police dealt with an emergency not of their making and did it to the best of their abilities.

It would be unfair if they were caught up in the compensation culture that seems to come in the wake of events like this.

Who caused those 56 deaths and 700 injuries?

It was Hasib Hussain, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Germaine Lindsay and Shehzad Tanweer.

And no one else.