A victim of an IRA bomb attack on Harrods has told how she still suffers "excruciating pain" more than 30 years later.
Mina Jadeja, of Heston , was caught in the blast after visiting the Knightsbridge department store with her sister and two nephews on December 17, 1983.
Speaking publicly about that day for the first time, she told a parliamentary inquiry how the terrorist attack had destroyed her life.
"I feel like my life has been snatched away from me. It has totally collapsed and hit rock bottom as I live in excruciating pain most days because of the injuries I sustained in this incident" she said.
The inquiry by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is looking into the role of the UK government in seeking compensation for victims of IRA attacks using weapons supplied by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Among the possibilities it is considering is whether the frozen assets of the Gaddafi family in the UK, totalling more than £900m, can be used to provide redress.
Ms Jadeja, her sister and two nephews were seriously injured in the attack on Harrods that day, which killed six people and injured 90 others.
Appearing before the inquiry on October 28, Ms Jadeja said they were just leaving the store where the children had visited Father Christmas when the bomb exploded.
"Total chaos dawned on us. I couldn't see through the smoke or hear anything. There was complete smoke and things were flying everywhere," she told the inquiry.
"I knew I was hurt because I was bleeding profoundly and had glass and debris sticking out of me everywhere."
Having got herself and her younger nephew to safety, the next thing she recalls is waking up in hospital, where she has a vague recollection of hearing then prime minister Margaret Thatcher saying "I can't see her like this. When she comes around wish her well from me".
Ms Jadeja said she was a "young, ambitious, career-driven" woman in her 20s, holding down two jobs, when the attack happened but had since been unable to work, despite twice retraining to make herself employable.
"I've had many years of sleeplessness and pain within my four walls and I feel like it's been a jail for me while the perpetrators walk freely and, I feel, perhaps without remorse," she added.
She told how an American victim of the car bomb who was in the same ward as her had received £3.4m compensation thanks to the US government, while she had received no support from her own government.
"It's quite ironic and unfair that being in the same incident and being in the same hospital ward as him, we didn't get any of that treatment. No one even spoke to us after the incident," she said.
She told the inquiry she had written to prime minister David Cameron in 2012 and had twice met Foreign Office representatives in 2013 and 2014 but "the message was this was our personal problem and we should pursue it by ourselves".
Feltham & Heston MP Seema Malhotra , who has supported Ms Jadeja in her fight for justice and watched as she gave evidence, praised her "powerful and brave testimony".
"I urge the Government to listen to Mina and other victims and to ensure they receive compensation and the ongoing support they need," she added.
