Speaking to ITV the day after suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device in the foyer of the arena as crowds were leaving the venue, Jones discussed the harrowing scenes in the moments following the explosion – revealing he’d helped remove nails from people’s bodies.

“Just because I am homeless, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t got a heart and I’m not human still,” he said. “It was a lot of children with blood all over them, crying and screaming.

“It had to be done, you had to help. If I didn’t help I wouldn’t be able to live with myself for walking away and leaving kids like that.”

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