4m
23 May 2017

‘Angel of Manchester’: ‘I heard children shouting for their dad’

They’re calling her the “Angel of Manchester”. But Paula Robinson says she just wanted to help. It was her wedding anniversary and she and her husband were going home after dinner from Victoria station, next to the arena, when the bomb went off. Seeing the chaos, and  young girls running from the scene having lost their parents, she shepherded them to the safety of a nearby hotel, before launching a call on social media for their parents to come and collect them.