Teen victim describes Manchester Arena attack

Millie Robson was having the night of her life.

She won VIP tickets to the Ariana Grande show. The tickets earned her an audience with the star before the show. She got to meet the star. Then she watched the show with a friend.

As she walked out afterward she saw her father waving from the top of a staircase. That’s when the bomb went off. Millie was hit by shrapnel. Her father ran down the stairs to retrieve her.

“I just remember the explosion and my ears started ringing for ages, and people screaming, things like that,” Millie recalled. “My dad ran over to me and picked me up and then like, we tied jumpers and stuff around the main wounds in my leg,”Millie said.

Millie’s wounds were minor.

“I have a few like holes in my legs and stuff  and I have a bit of a cut, and my arm and just a bit here, but compared to other people I’m quite lucky really,” she said.

Millie’s parents were as scared as she was. At one moment they were waving to their daughter; the next, they saw her lying on the ground, bleeding.

“We were at top of the stairs and I could see my partner,” said her father David Robson. “She saw Millie and others coming out and so I am waving at them. The next thing was just this boom. I saw Millie, at the bottom of the stairs, I just ran down, picked her up.”

Millie’s concern after the blast? How was Ariana Grande, and how could she help other victims?

“She was bothered and wondering  if Ariana was all right and if, telling people to go see to other people who were more injured than her,” said Millie’s mother, Jane. “It just shows what she is like.”