Tube bombs hero PC wins top award
Published: March 17, 2006
A HERO police officer has been honoured with a top award for helping to save the lives of passengers injured in a Tube train in the July 7 London bomb horrors.
Former Nazeing village police constable Elizabeth Kenworthy, 45, of Middle Street, has been presented with the Commissioner’s High Commendation for supreme courage, the highest honour in the Metropolitan Police.
PC Kenworthy was presented with her badge of courage by Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair at a ceremony at the Met’s Hendon Police College in north-west London.
The mum of two, an officer stationed in Haringey, north London, received the award for her selfless efforts after being caught up in the atrocities while travelling to work.
PC Kenworthy, who was Nazeing’s village bobby between 1985 and 1987, recalled the moment the bomb went off on the Aldgate Tube train.
“I was two carriages away,” she told the Mercury.
“I walked through the train to find out what had happened and delivered first aid. I’m trained to help people.
“I treated three people who were very seriously injured. Two had their legs blown off and one had lost her arm.
“The train had been disembowelled. The side of the train had been blown off. There was smoke and blood.
“The people in the carriage would have died if they had not been given help immediately.”
When the emergency services arrived, PC Kenworthy walked up the tracks to Aldgate Station, and sought refuge in a nearby office.
“I was covered in blood and I was filthy. I had used my jacket in first aid and was cold by that time,” she said.
To her delight, PC Kenworthy later discovered that her intervention had helped two of the passengers to survive.
“One of the casualties was desperate to find me and thank me. He was sitting up in hospital, talking about a blonde woman who had helped save him,” she added.
“I got to meet him and we’re good friends now.”
PC Kenworthy said she was “very surprised” when she heard she was to get the award.
“It was great to feel appreciated,” she said.
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