Police officers then began knocking on doors in his street, advising residents to evacuate in case there was a secondary device.
“Your brain starts going 100 miles a minute,” Morgan recalled.
He said he tried to stay calm while he packed some belongings, but admitted that the “adrenaline is going quite a bit at this point”.
His pregnant wife was staying at her mother’s house on Saturday night and he said he was “grateful” she was not at home when the bomb went off.
“I’d phoned my brother-in-law just to see if there was a bit of a space for the evening and I was trying to gather some things together for my wife as well.”
He had to wake his children, the elder of whom wanted to know why they were having a “sleepover” at their uncle’s house.
“They are not really questions you’re expecting to have to answer in 2026,” Morgan said.
