Honeymoon couple from Titchfeld gave up suite to help during Paris attack

Courtney and Callum Hartley, from Titchfield, let seven strangers sleep in their Paris hotel room on the first night of their honeymoon after 129 people were killed during the extremists' attack last Friday.

The young couple touched down in the French captial that day and after seeing the Eiffel Tower during the day they had planned to take a stroll back to the tower.

But after heading back to the hotel just a few hundred yards from the landmark, they fell asleep, only to be woken by frantic friends and relatives calling them.

Mrs Hartley, 20, said: "We didn't really know what was going on - we were getting calls from our friends to ask if we were okay and they told us there was a terrorist attack happening but we didn't know where."

The hotel the pair were staying was raided by heavily armed police the following day and the area around the Eiffel Tower evacuated.

Courtney and Callum on their wedding day, with baby Phoebee

After venturing into the lobby they discovered everyone in a panic as the hotel was put into lockdown.

Mrs Hartley, the mother of a four-month-old girl named Phoebee, said: "There was a woman that came to the hotel that was covered in blood, crying and trying to get into the hotel, but the hotel was in lockdown. An Australian man we met pushed the security out the way and let her in.

"We met a group of five female American students and we went up and asked if they were okay and they said they had just been by the Eiffel Tower and were told to get to safety so they ran to our hotel.

"About an hour later, the hotel manager walked up to us and told us that we need to go to our hotel rooms - he said there were gunmen loose around the corner and if we stayed in the lobby, we would die."

Mr and Mrs Hartley offered the students sanctuary in their hotel room and also let a British couple, both 17, stay in the room.

Mrs Hartley, a police call handler, said: "We were pretty scared and we were watching the news and found ourselves getting depressed and upset and we call called home to let them know we were safe.

The couple took this photo of the Eiffel Tower on the day of the attacks.

"I found I went straight back to what I do at work telling people they need to calm down and every one calmed down quite quickly."

The next day the Hartley's cut their honeymoon short and flew home but kept in touch with their new companions to make sure they were safe and have since received thanks from the American students families.

She said: "None of us had a clue what was going on but over the night we became really close friends.

Another of the couple's photos from the day of the attack

"They would do the same for me so I am not really fussed to have given up the hotel room, I am just glad everyone is safe.

"We were relieved to be home and I gave my baby a cuddle and said I am never going to leave you again.

"My husband and I have lost a lot of family members - we genuinely feel that those people were looking down on us making sure we got home safe."