The third and final report from the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb attack has been published.
Volume Three, on radicalisation and preventability, contains the findings of inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders on whether the terror attack by Salman Abedi could have been prevented by MI5 and counter-terrorism police.
It also looks at the radicalisation of Manchester-born Abed and the planning and preparation of the attack which took place after an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the suicide attack.
The public inquiry into the attack took place between September 7 2020 and February 15 2022 and two reports have already been published.
The first, released in June 2021, focused on security arrangements at Manchester Arena on the night of the attack. It highlighted a string of “missed opportunities” to identify Abedi as a threat before he walked across the City Room foyer and detonated his shrapnel-laden device.
The second volume, which was released in November 2022, focused on the emergency response to the attack. It delivered a scathing attack on the emergency services and ruled that care worker John Atkinson, 28, would probably have survived but for the failures on the night, while there was a “remote possibility” the youngest victim, eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos, could have lived with different treatment and care.
You can download part one of the report HERE.
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