It is a decade since George, 59, turned his number 30 bus into Tavistock Square and briefly saw the faces of his passengers in the rear-view mirror seconds before 18-year-old Hasib Hussain detonated a bomb on the top deck. Thirteen people, including Hussain, died and many more were seriously injured.
It was the fourth in a line of co-ordinated suicide attacks across London that day which left 52 people dead, 700 injured, and countless lives changed for ever. George is among them. Although he emerged physically unscathed, the emotional scars remain, along with a bewilderment and anger that such violence could have been visited on the city he loves.
George Psaradakis still breaks down as he struggles to convey the full, heart-wrenching horror of the moment a 7/7 suicide bomber blew apart the bus he was driving. 'Even if my vocabulary had all the words in the world, I would still not find the right ones to describe my feelings about what I saw that day,' he says. 'To see those happy people butchered. It was like a bomb exploded inside me that day, too.'
'The horror of what I witnessed is etched indelibly on my heart, but I saw so many wonderful things, too. Sheer altruism, benevolence, people going out of their way to help others. What I saw was the worst of people mixed with the best.
'It was a sacrilege, but we will not let these people win. They have caused so much pain to people's lives but they will never achieve what they want. They are a few against many.'
'I have lived most of my life here and London is my home. So many nationalities live here harmoniously and nothing can ruin that,' he says.
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