A mother-of-two was sending a text message to her husband while on her way to meet her children from school when she was killed by a crazed terrorist.
Aysha Frade was unaware of the approaching danger when Khalid Masood mowed her down as he carried out his sickening rampage along Westminster Bridge, an inquest heard today.
Just weeks earlier the school administrator had told her husband she feared an attack when her job moved to London but was reassured she would 'be in the safest part' of the capital.
The 44-year-old had her back to Mahood's SUV and was looking at her phone when she was thrown some 17.4 metres. She died instantly when she was hit by a passing bus.
Moments later she received a call from her husband which was answered by a passer-by who told him there had been a 'terrible accident' and he should get to the scene.
The Old Bailey was shown harrowing CCTV clips of Mrs Frade's final moments
The school administrator had told her husband John (pictured together) that she feared an attack when her job moved to London
Her husband John had earlier told the inquest: 'She worried about the new location of [her college] DLD's campus moments away from parliament.
'She asked me several times, what if anything were to happen in Westminster?
Mother-of-two Aysha Frade, 44, was killed in the Westminster Bridge terror attack
'My words were always of encouragement and positivity, never once entertaining how an incident could horrifically become reality, especially a place I imagined so highly clad with security, CCTV, and police.
'Least of all could I ever imagine the odds of something happening to Aysha, at that precise spot, at that exact moment, innocently walking away from a job she cherished on her way to pick up her children whom she emphatically loved above all else in this world.'
Detective Constable Simon Osland today took the Old Bailey through harrowing CCTV clips of Mrs Frade's final moments as members of her family in court looked away.
Masood was driving around 31mph when he deliberately knocked down Kurt Cochran, 54, Leslie Rhodes, 75, Mrs Frade, 44, and Andreea Cristea, 31, on the bridge before stabbing Pc Keith Palmer to death at the gates to the Palace of Westminster on March 22 last year.
Masood, 52, killed five in his 82-second rampage over Westminster Bridge in March last year
Gareth Patterson QC, representing Mr Frade's family, asked DC Osland: 'Having been focused on her phone it's clear, isn't it, that at no stage do you see Aysha turning round or doing anything else, any movement to suggest that she heard the car or was aware of what was going to happen?'
The officer replied: 'She seemed completely unaware.'
Mr Patterson said there was hair on Masood's car, suggesting she hit her head on the windscreen.
She was then thrown into the road, with the number 53 bus braking and coming to a halt in five seconds.
The lawyer for the family said a pathologist had concluded her death would have been 'instantaneous and would have been without suffering'.
Mr Patterson said graphic photos and videos had been posted on the internet of Mrs Frade's body by passers-by, causing 'real distress to the family'.
He added: 'Despite efforts to have them taken down because of the distress caused, to this day there are images on the internet.'
Masood drove along the pavement of Westminster Bridge before running into the grounds of Parliament
Flowers left at the scene of the attack on Westminster Bridge last March
Bus passenger Rob English picked up Mrs Frade's phone from the road, and answered a call from her husband John.
Mr English told him there had been a terrible accident and advised him to get to the bridge.
Pc Kirsty Bambrough stayed with Mrs Frade for a number of hours, even though medics quickly realised her injuries were 'absolutely incompatible with life'.
The officer broke down as she recalled the 'horrific injuries' to Mrs Frade's face and head, and tearfully gave her condolences to the family, who thanked her as she left court.
Rob Lyon told how he banged on the side of the bus in an attempt to stop it, moments before Mrs Frade was crushed under its wheels.
Mr Lyon had been returning to his hotel from Millbank when a colleague shouted: 'Get out of the way.'
Masood's car had missed him by inches while his colleague was forced to climb the balustrade to get out of his murderous path.
This is one of the last photos taken by tourist Andreea Cristea on Westminster Bridge before she was hit by a car driven by terrorist Khalid Masood and knocked into the Thames
Earlier, Mrs Frade's husband told the inquest how the couple met at the gym in 1996, and described how he was immediately struck by her smile.
He said Aysha was 'relaxed, fun to be around, laughing and smiling', and greatly valued her family and close friends.
She loved her job as a PA at a school and was a devoted mother to her two daughters, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Frade said the couple had plans for a big white wedding in 2006, but the idea was shelved when she became pregnant with their first daughter in 2005.
Keen to be married before she gave birth, the couple 'grabbed two strangers from the street' to be witnesses and were married in a 10-minute ceremony.
The inquest heard Mrs Frade 'lived and breathed for her daughters', and her husband was in awe of the balance she struck 'between tender care and discipline'.
He told the court that she was a loving daughter to her aging mother who she visited every day.
Mr Frade went on: 'The truth is that she still doesn't feel like she's gone, her love surrounds us, her aura lights up the paths of life's journey.'
He said his wife had been 'cruelly and brutally ripped away from us'.
Her sister Michelle also read an emotionally-charged statement to the hearing.
She said: 'People cannot understand how this despicable act of futile atrocity has impacted on not only her families' lives but also herself. She will never be able to smile again, see her daughters grow up.
'Aysha and all the other victims of this tragedy are people and not just statistics or a name that will be forgotten once this inquest is over.'
Inquests are being held into Mrs Frade's death and those of four other victims of the attack in March last year. The jury inquest is expected to last up to five weeks.
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