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BBC presenter Clive Myrie has revealed his anger at the terrorists who killed his friend in the 7/7 London bombings. And he hit out at the attackers’ refusal to buy into British values.
Miriam Hyman was a guest at the Mastermind host’s wedding and her death left him “angry at the senselessness of it all”. The attacks on the Tube and a bus by four Islamic suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured over 750 more in Central London in July 2005. In his new autobiography, Clive, 59, said: “It was the worst terrorist atrocity on British soil.
“Three of the four killers were British-born, second-generation immigrants like me, with their parents from Pakistan. One moved to the UK when he was only a year old. I felt overwhelming anger towards the four men. “My wife Catherine worked with one of the victims who died. Miriam came to our wedding and the beautiful pottery she gave us as a present 25 years ago still sits in our home.”
Miriam Hyman who died in the 7/7 attacks (PA)The picture editor, 31, had been on a double-decker bus near King’s Cross, when it was blown up. Clive wrote: “I was angry at the men’s failure to have bought into the idea of a multicultural Britain, their failure as brown people to buy into the values of tolerance and freedom that underpin liberal democracy. “They had been unable to assume the dual identity I wore so lightly, along with millions of other second-generation immigrants, who were proud to call Britain their home.”
Clive, who began as a newspaper delivery boy in Bolton before entering journalism, said he has lobbied BBC bosses to improve diversity in the newsroom. The newsreader wrote: “Much of the time I am the only person of colour.”
- Everything is Everything, by Clive Myrie, is out now published by Hodder & Stoughton.