'They're just covering their backsides'. Ken Mullen, whose nephew Philip Tron was one of the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena terror attack, made his withering assessment of the security services almost 12 months ago.
Will anything that has emerged today - after an inquiry that cost £30m, and heard from nearly 300 people - change his mind?
Following the publication of the third and final report of the public inquiry, we learned there was 'a significant missed opportunity to take action' on the part of MI5 that might have prevented the attack.