I stood among the dead after 7/7 Tube bombs and told them: ‘We’re going to get you back to your loved ones’

IT is almost 20 years since Clive Holland stood among the victims of Britain’s first Islamist suicide attack, and the memory still reduces the former soldier to tears.

He was one of Scotland Yard’s detectives investigating the 7/7 bombings that brought carnage to London on July 7, 2005, leaving 52 commuters dead and more than 700 injured.