The teenage asylum seeker responsible has been jailed for at least 34 years for planting the Parsons Green Tube bomb which injured 51 passengers.

Ahmed Hassan pretended to engage with the anti-terrorism Prevent scheme as he plotted mass murder in the capital last September.

On the tube at the time was Rev Rob Pickering from Selhurst Church in Croydon who left his home earlier than usual to go to Fulham from Wimbledon with a church elder.

Speaking to Premier, Pickering described the moment the bomb went off: “There was a very strange chemical smell that filled the air just micro-moments before a very large and loud explosion. It was a deep, bass-like boom that filled the carriage.

“It echoed from the carriage and that was almost simultaneously accompanied by a loud cries and screams and really just a mass panic.”

Rob Pickering was about 15 feet away from the package: “I was facing towards the bomb…it had been placed on the floor there in the door way…I saw the fireball sort of ripping towards us – I immediately knew my life was in danger.”

Describing what it was like after the bomb went off, he said: “I felt as though impending doom was fast approaching and there we were, in a sense standing toe to toe with death.”

Rob had done two training courses with the Met police about what to do in a terror attack, which prompted him to speak to a TfL member of staff about evacuating the station.

After leaving Parsons Green station, Rob and his church elder prayed…

Police in France said three people have been killed and around a dozen injured during a terrorist attack in the south of France.

A gunman – who’d pledged allegiance to Islamic State – hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket, before being shot dead in a police raid. 

Elizabeth, who is the wife of a pastor of a church ten minutes’ drive away from Trèbes, told Premier the news was shocking.

“We’re safe anywhere if it’s not yet our time. But these things can happen anywhere and we just need to trust that God can look after us if it’s not yet our time. It’s a reminder that life is precious and people need the Gospel.”

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said all information suggested it “seems to be a terrorist act”.

France has been on high alert since a string of Islamic extremist attacks in 2015 and 2016 that killed more than 200 people.

The attacker first fired six shots at police officers who were on their way back from jogging near the city of Carcassonne on Friday morning, said Yves Lefebvre, secretary general of the SGP Police-FO police union.

One police officer had a shoulder injury but it was not serious, Mr Lefebvre said.

The suspect then went to a Super U supermarket in the nearby small town of Trèbes, about 60 miles south east of Toulouse.

Special police units were sent to the scene and local authorities have blocked roads and urged residents to stay away.

Elizabeth encouraged Christians to pray for the situation: “Jesus did warn us there will…