"It was going to be the making of him," said his father.When Phil's sister Stacy, 24, heard of what was initially power surges on the Piccadilly line she sent a text message to Pat, as Phil had lost his phone. "Pat rang when he managed to get off the train, just sobbing and saying a bomb had gone off in the train and he couldn't find Phil anywhere. Perhaps we are the luckiest ones.""It would have been nice to have been with our boy when he died. It would have been nice to hold him," said his father, Phil, a 47-year-old plasterer, his voice breaking.On the day of the blasts, Phil, who lived with his family, was travelling to Sanrizz, the Knightsbridge hair salon, with his friend, Pat Barnes, 22, where they both worked Phil had only been there for two weeks. The family of Phil Beer, a 22-year-old hairstylist from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, whose name was formally released on Friday, are still waiting for his body to be released by the coroner, despite receiving confirmation of his death on Monday. They had been hoping to hold his funeral this week."It's wrong, we've been left hanging around for eight days," said his mother, Kim, 47, on Friday "It's been the longest eight days of my life. I do appreciate that there are a lot of people out there who have lost loved ones and they haven't found their bodies.
Polish trainee accountant Monica Suchoka was confirmed as one of the dead yesterday.While the waiting is over for some relatives, their agony is not. The couple were childhood sweethearts who had been together for nearly 13 years. So far, 41 victims have been formally identified and 32 names have been released by the police. Mr Harris, who had been critically ill after the blast, died in the Royal London Hospital in the East End. He had been caught up in the Tube train bombing near King's Cross 10 days ago, along with his partner, Samantha Badham, 36, who is missing, feared dead. Lee Harris, a 30-year-old architect, was yesterday named by friends as the latest victim of the London bomb blasts, a death that took the total number killed to 55. We have to look at what we have got to do to deter these terrorists and to make them frightened of being caught."Security officials fear that terrorists may next target buildings and tourists, especially in central London. They stress, however, that no information has warranted a warning.Anti-terrorist hotline: 0800 789321; .
His brother Naveed is still thought to be helping police in London.A terror summit at Scotland Yard last Tuesday agreed new strategies to prevent further attacks, a senior police officer has told the IoS "We are revising the manual on how to prevent other attacks. Police were last night given extra time to question a man who is believed to have worked at the shop.Police also took over a seventh property in the Beeston area, a terraced house 50 yards from Tanweer's home on Tempest Road but barriers were removed from other houses, including that of an initial bomb suspect, Ejaz Riaz, on Stratford Terrace. Two people were held in Lahore and four in Faisalabad on suspicion of aiding Shehzad Tanweer, whose bomb killed seven on the Circle line at Aldgate.In Beeston, Leeds, the investigation moved to the Iqra Learning Centre, the bookshop where the three Leeds bombers are thought to have met. British officers arrived in Cairo yesterday to interview Magdi el-Nashar, a biochemist linked to an address in Leeds, apparently used as a bomb factory. The Government is said to be resisting pressure to extradite the Egyptian national.In Pakistan, students and teachers at a religious school believed to have been attended by one of the bombers were interviewed by intelligence officials.
