THE hospital notes of bin lorry driver Harry Clarke have come to light for the first time.

They show Mr Clarke, who blacked out at the wheel before the vehicle killed six people, was kept in hospital until the victims were laid to rest.

Family members of those who died have said the notes show Mr Clarke has a complete lack of remorse for what happened on December 22 last year.

The notes reportedly show that the driver told a nurse: “I can’t understand how all this can happen to one man.”

And the nurse wrote in the notes: “Harry is very distressed about the situation. He feels his life has gone from good to ‘throwing himself off a cliff’.

“He is worried about getting a sick line to his work by Monday."

Mr Clarke was allowed to stay in his private room for two weeks and didn’t leave hospital until all the victims of the December 22 tragedy had been laid to rest.

A nurse wrote on Boxing Day, four days after the crash: “At mention of leaving single room and facing the outside world, patient becomes extremely anxious... asked, ‘Will there be any newspapers waiting at the door?’

“Also stated, ‘It would be good if I could just stay here until after the funerals.’”

Mr Clarke is said to have added on Hogmanay: “I know I cannot be kept in this bubble forever.”

When Mr Clarke spoke about “throwing himself off a cliff”, he was asked if he really wanted to do that. He replied: “A man who tells you he’s going to throw himself off a cliff won’t do it.”

The notes were lodged as evidence at the fatal accident inquiry into the tragedy, but their contents have not previously been revealed.

Gillian Ewing’s daughter Lucy said in an interview that Mr Clarke was treated as a victim from the start.

Lucy, a fourth-year law and criminology student, said: “There was a big well of sympathy but it was based on a lot of rubbish.

“It was 100 per cent that there was no heart attack from the time of the crash. But the public were allowed to believe that was the case up to July.

“This man has never shown any actual remorse.

"He walked into the FAI one day with a smile on his face. He seemed detached from the terrible consequences of the crash.

“He seems sorry for the situation he has found himself in but he is obviously just thinking about himself. The scary thing is that he still doesn’t seem to realise what he has done.

“After everything, he still thought it would be OK to keep driving lorries for a living.”

Despite the tragedy and his medical history, Mr Clarke reapplied for his HGV licence after the crash.

Mr Clarke, 57, blacked out at the wheel in Glasgow city centre while the streets were crowded with Christmas shoppers.

The bin lorry ran out of control, killing Erin McQuade, 18, her gran Lorraine Sweeney, 69, her grandad Jack Sweeney, 68, Gillian Ewing, 52, Jacqueline Morton, 51, and Stephenie Tait, 29. Fifteen people were injured.

Prosecutors ruled this February that he would not face any criminal action, prompting anger from the victims' families.