<p><br /> The most seriously injured survivor of the July 7 bombings has spoken of how he was standing next to the terrorist ringleader as he detonated his device.<br /> </p><p><br /> Daniel Biddle, 31, lost both legs, his left eye, his spleen and 87 pints of blood when Mohammed Sidique Khan killed himself and six other people at Edgware Road.<br /> </p><p><br /> He told the inquests into the 52 who died in the 2005 atrocities that a 20p piece remains lodged in his thigh bone, and other shrapnel, including his door keys, was removed by surgeons.<br /> </p><p><br /> Speaking at the Royal Courts of Justice, Mr Biddle said he was blown out of the westbound Circle Line train as he travelled to work as a construction manager.<br /> </p><p><br /> He described how Khan, who got on the train at King's Cross, sat between 6ft and 10ft away from him before detonating his bomb by jerking a white cord.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Biddle said: "The train entered the Tube tunnel, I looked around. As I looked around, he looked up and I saw a quick movement. Then there was a big white flash.<br /> </p><p><br /> "The kind of noise you get when you tune a radio in. It felt like the carriage I was in expanded at a fast rate and then contracted quickly.<br /> </p><p><br /> "And with that it blew me off my feet and through the carriage doors into the tunnel."<br /> </p><p><br /> He added: "Before he set the device off he looked up and along the carriage and just looked down.<br /> </p><p><br /> "He didn't say anything or shout anything I remember hearing. He got his head down, moved his arm and the next thing I am outside the train."<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Biddle said his first thought was that he had "fallen out of the train" when he woke up on the tracks, covered in debris.<br /> </p><p><br /> He said: "I had quite a lot of metal on top of me. It was very dark and dusty.<br /> </p><p><br /> "My initial thought was 'Jesus Christ, the doors have given and I have fallen out of the train'.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Biddle described how he hit his head against a light on the wall of the tunnel, knocking him out.<br /> </p><p><br /> When he came to, the train was still moving, and he found a piece of door or train panel holding him down by his legs and his arm was on fire.<br /> </p><p><br /> The inquest heard that Mr Biddle could see several bodies, including one just 2ft away.<br /> </p><p><br /> He said: "I was terrified, seeing what I had seen, and thought I was going to die. So I was screaming just as loud as I could to get help."<br /> </p>
