Woman's shooting ordeal on Tube

A commuter has described the moment she was shot by a stray bullet on her way home from work in a busy Tube station.

Emma Sheridan, 26, was walking down a tunnel in Finsbury Park Tube in north London when she heard a "loud bang", in May last year.

She turned to run with the other commuters but suddenly felt "something wrong in my back", a court heard.

John Laidlaw, of Sussex Road, Holloway, north London, denies three counts of attempted murder and gun charges.

Mr Laidlaw, 24, had allegedly been aiming his gun at 22-year-old Evans Baptiste, the Old Bailey heard.

But the bullet fired at Mr Baptiste brushed past him and struck Miss Sheridan, the court was told.

I was panicking that I was about to die or something Emma Sheridan

Half-an-hour earlier, it was claimed Mr Laidlaw shot social worker Abu Kamara, 43, in Upper Street, Islington.

In evidence, Miss Sheridan said she felt her back while she ran and felt a "hole in my clothes and something hard stuck in me".

She added: "I started getting tingles down my arm and I started panicking.

"I was putting things together in my head - that's when I thought, 'there's a bullet in my back'.

"I was panicking that I was about to die or something."

She called for assistance and a medical student helped to remove the bullet which was lodged just below her left shoulder blade.

Miss Sheridan said she was still traumatised by the attack and she found it difficult to go back to using the Underground.

"I was just sort of very panicky for a while. I missed five weeks of work. I couldn't go out," she said.

"I was getting panicky if I was in a crowd. There was a time when I wouldn't want to go outside, I would just sit in my flat."

The trial continues.