The home secretary has said she will “carefully consider” recommendations from a damning report into the emergency response on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, which killed 22 people in 2017. The chairman of the inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack, Sir John Saunders, said that "significant aspects of the emergency response went wrong" on the night of May 22.
Care worker John Atkinson, 28, who died after suffering a cardiac arrest just over an hour after the explosion, could have survived his injuries, today's report found. Sir John said: "Had he received the care and treatment he should have, it is likely he would have survived. It is likely that inadequacies in the emergency response prevented his survival.”
The home secretary, Suella Braverman, issued a statement shortly after the report was published, in which she said she would consider recommendations in the report to "strengthen our response".
