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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Damon Wilkinson

Parents of the youngest Manchester Arena terror attack victim ask why bomber wasn't stopped

The parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack say 'questions need to be answered' over why bomber Salman Abedi wasn't prevented from carrying out the atrocity.

Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, was one of 22 people who were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017. A BBC Panorama documentary, due to air tonight (Monday), follows Saffie's parents Andrew and Lisa as they return to Manchester for the public inquiry and shows them speaking with security experts about the attack.

Lord David Anderson QC, who in 2017 carried out an independent review of M15 and counter-terror policing in the wake of that year's terror attacks in Manchester and London, tells Panorama: "We spend three billion pounds a year in this country on counter-terrorism and that night it didn’t work."

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