A report has found that one of the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing could have survived if the response of the emergency services had been better.
28-year-old John Atkinson was one of 22 people killed in the attack in May 2017, when Salman Abedi detonated an improvised device in his backpack as concert-goers were leaving the Ariana Grande show. The findings of a public inquiry into the tragedy have now laid bare a number of key failings by the emergency services on the night of the attack, as reported by the Manchester Evening News.
Author Sir John Saunders ruled that Mr Atkinson, from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, could have survived, writing: "It is likely that inadequacies in the emergency response prevented his survival". John was not seen by paramedics for almost an hour after the bomb went off, with his care left to former pizza shop boss Ronald Blake, who held a makeshift tourniquet fashioned from his wife's belt and folded t-shirts.
