'I KNEW'
Manchester bombing victim Alison Howe’s husband breaks Good Morning Britain viewers’ hearts by recounting moment he knew ‘something was wrong’
THE husband of a woman who was killed in the Manchester terror attack has described the heart-wrenching moment he realised something was wrong.
Alison Howe, 45, and her pal Lisa Lees, 47, were killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi as they waited in the Manchester Arena foyer to meet their daughters after the Ariana Grande concert on Monday.
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Now devastated husband Steve has described the moment a friend told him where the bomb went off - exactly where he knew Alison had been waiting.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Steve, from Royton, Gtr Manchester, said daughter Darcy called him to say there had been an explosion and her mum wasn't answering her phone.
He said: "I immediately knew something was wrong.
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"I rang a friend of mine who works in security at the arena and he told me where it [the bomb] had gone off and I knew where my wife was going to be stood… because she didn’t answer her phone, we hoped she was unconscious.
"I can't describe the pain. I'm not a weak man. We are broken in half.
"I've still got enough in me to try to do something about this, if other people will help me."
Steve also called for the UK to be tougher on extremists, saying: "We need to fight fire with fire.
"We need to stand up to the plate… let’s get something done please.
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"We knew the person that's done this within 20 minutes - we need to pin them down and stop being 'softly softly'. We've got the money, we've got the resources."
He said the security services should be "ashamed of themselves".
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Asked what he would say to Theresa May, he replied: "Give me your job!
"Give me your job for a few hours. Put me in charge."
Pals described the brainy Manchester United fan as “very jolly”, as it emerged he was dubbed “Dumbo” because of his big ears.
But over the past two years he is said to have changed completely after a number of trips to Libya to visit his family.
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