A WOMAN from Ramsbottom has told how she comforted a 14-year-old girl who was injured by shrapnel in the Manchester terror attack.

Jenny Lee, aged 24, went to see Ariana Grande with her boyfriend, Josh Rickett, aged 31, and heard the explosion and described the 'panic' that ensued.

She spotted Ella McGovern, whose legs were bleeding and felt it was 'the right thing to do' to go over and help her.

Miss Lee, of Whittingham Drive, said: "We heard the explosion and everyone flooded back into the arena.

"We were aware something had happened. It was confusing, there was a lot of panicking. My reaction was the same – I wanted to run out.

"My boyfriend was extremely calm, he reassured me, telling me ‘it’s fine, don’t worry’.

"We left the corridor that goes all the way around, and that’s when it was obvious something terrible had happened. There was a lot of blood and people walking around."

Miss Lee and Mr Rickett knew that they should do something to help.

She said: "Josh was running around helping women who had lost their children, it was complete chaos.

"I saw Ella. At that point her trainers were more red than white. They were covered in blood. I stopped her and her friend and got them to sit down. She was shouting for her mum. I took her phone and rang her mum and phoned an ambulance for her."

She sat with Ella while her mum found a way around the cordon to collect her and tried to distract her from the pain.

Miss Lee said: "She had a lot of shrapnel in her legs. From what she told me, what happened was the explosion went off and it was the people in front of her who received the impact.

Ella's mum was due to collect the pair and Miss Lee said: "She had been trying to ring her mum but because her ears were perforated she couldn’t hear and her mum couldn’t get any sense out of her."

Miss Lee distracted Ella from the pain in her legs while she sat with her and learned she lived just 10 minutes away.

Ella's parents wanted to thank her, and a number of people on social media joined them to help 'find Jenny'.

Ella's dancing teacher knew Mr Rickett, who owns a dancing company, and put the family in touch with Jenny.

Miss Lee was adamant she did not want to be called a 'heroine'. She said: "A lot of people did things. It was a natural thing and a lot of people would have done the same."