New 7/7 book

[Ally]

7/7 terror survivor forgot about pay-out

Jun 5 2006

Paul Rowland, Western Mail

A SURVIVOR of the London bombings has revealed how memory loss brought on by his injuries made him forget he had received a £2,500 compensation cheque.

John Tulloch, who lives in Penarth, hit the headlines last month after claiming he had received just £10 from the Government as compensation for the injuries he suffered in the bombing at Edgware Road in July last year.

But media lecturer Prof Tulloch, whose book One Day In July: Experiencing 7/7 is released later this month, now admits he received a cheque from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority - only to then forget all about it.

He has also spoken out about the need for an independent inquiry into the bombings, and the fact that he is now riding Tube trains again.
In May, he was reported as saying, "I have so far only received £10 to cover the cost of the photos of my remaining scars that the Government have asked for.
"I have had nothing yet from compensation, although I did get a few thousand pounds from the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund. They are certainly taking a long time over it."

He has now apologised for that original claim, but described his actual pay-out as "still rather little, rather late".

He said, "Two weeks ago, I became aware of significant memory lapses, probably a legacy of the head injury, which will require clinical, psychological and neurological tests.
And he added, "I've been paid a small amount (£2,500) of interim compensation, and then somehow forgot either receiving or banking the cheque - one of the memory lapses I've mentioned.

"So my apologies are certainly due to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, especially because some of the media beat that story up a bit.
"But it's still rather little, rather late, don't you think? Especially for the people of 7/7 who came off much worse than I did.

"The London Bombings Relief people were a lot quicker with their help, and I thank them for that - because so much of my personal and professional stuff was lost that day."

Prof Tulloch also demanded a full independent inquiry into the atrocities, and attacked Tony Blair as a leader "deplored" by a "huge part of Britain".

He said, "The victims continue to be ignored in their call for an independent inquiry into 7/7. Meanwhile, Tony Blair continues to be obsessed with his legacy.

"A huge part of Britain hates what has happened, deplores Blair as an emperor with no clothes, and still looks for political leaders who do have human values."

Writing in a London-based Sunday newspaper which is serialising his book, Prof Tulloch, who previously worked in the Department of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, said he is becoming increasingly comfortable travelling on the Tube, although he is still limited to surface lines.
Speaking to the Western Mail last October, he described returning to the Underground as a "sweat-making experience", but now says he is getting used to it.

He said, "I still haven't managed to get on the deep, tunnel-carved Tube trains like the Piccadilly Line, where such horrific things happened.

"I haven't often been through the Edgware Road to Paddington stretch on the Circle Line either. But the Metropolitan Line from Baker Street to Uxbridge sees lots of me, and that's OK."

Prof Tulloch, who specialises in perceptions of risk and the fear of crime, was on his way back to Cardiff when he was caught up in the bombings which left 52 people dead and hundreds injured.

He was around three feet from the spot where suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan detonated a bomb, and suffered shrapnel injuries and concussion, and later, loss of hearing and severe bouts of vertigo.

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[brian]

From Mr Tulloch we get the recurring theme of damage to the floors in the extract fom his book. - the concave aspect being seperate damage it appears.

"With my impaired vision - no glasses, one eye completely closed and the other half-closed - I couldn't see much in the dark and the smoke. I could see considerable damage to the floor of the carriage in front and, to my right, some sort of concave shape to the floor, and in that lay a man's body."



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