London Bridge terror attack victim's fiance told man to stop filming her death

The fiance of a Canadian woman killed in the London Bridge terror attack told a man to “stop filming” after she was dragged under the wheels of a van, an inquest has heard.

Social worker Christine Archibald, 30, suffered “almost instantaneous” death when she was hit by the rented vehicle on June 3, 2017 as she walked with Tyler Ferguson, the Old Bailey was told.

She was one of eight people killed when Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, launched a van and knife rampage on London Bridge and in Borough Market.

Bus driver Anton Sobanski said he returned to his vehicle in the aftermath of the attack to find the bottom deck deserted except for an empty pram, with passengers sheltering upstairs.

He said: “There was a man upstairs at the back and he was trying to film where Chrissy and someone – I believe it was Tyler – telling him ‘stop filming’.”

Ms Archibald and her fiance were walking across the bridge after the couple, who were living together in The Hague, Netherlands, went for dinner at a Thai restaurant during a weekend visit to the capital.

“Chrissy stopped out of nowhere, grabbed me close to give me a passionate kiss after telling me how much she loved me,” he said in his evidence, which was read at the Old Bailey on Friday.

He said earlier during an “intense conversation” she had told him to make up with his father because he “could get hit by a bus tomorrow”.

The inquest heard how they switched sides moments before the attackers’ began targeting groups of pedestrians in their rented van.

Mr Ferguson said he saw a man screaming as he ran down the road and heard the screeching of tyres as the vehicle approached from behind.

“I then noticed a really large white Transit van on the pavement hurtling towards us,” he said.

“It was immediately clear this was an act of violence and not an accident.”

Mr Tyler said he heard a “loud thud”, adding: “I then looked for Chrissy. She was no longer next to me.

I realised she had been hit by the van.”

CCTV footage played in court, which was described by counsel to the inquest Jonathan Hough QC as “graphic and distressing”, showed Ms Archibald being struck by the van on the third time it had mounted the 10cm curb.

Mr Ferguson was seen to run after the van and crouch down over her body, which had been carried down the road under the chassis.

He said: “She was lying on her back, her dress had been ripped off by the van, so she was naked at this stage.

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“I remember looking down at her mangled body as she convulsed and released the physical life from her body.”

Mr Ferguson said he had to “scoop out fragments of teeth” to clear his fiance’s airway before performing CPR – but saw blood come from her mouth as he tried to breathe into it.

“I knew in this moment she was dead,” he said.

Ms Archibald was one of eight people killed in the attack.

The others were Xavier Thomas, 45, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39.

The attackers, who wore fake explosive belts, were shot dead by police.