Manchester Arena inquiry: victims’ families respond to final report People who lost loved ones and their representatives speak out as MI5 is accused of a ‘devastating’ failure The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
‘Cataclysmic failure’: Father of Manchester Arena bombing victim says MI5 ‘not fit to keep us safe’ Andrew Roussos, whose daughter Saffie-Rose, eight, was killed in blast, said his daughter lost her life due to security service failings The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
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UK spy chief ‘profoundly sorry’ for failing to stop concert bombing An inquiry finds a realistic possibility that intelligence could have been obtained to prevent the Manchester concert bombing The New Daily · Mar 2, 2023
Manchester Arena inquiry lacks crucial details but is still hard reading for MI5 Two pieces of pre-attack intelligence cannot be made public but it would be unwise to be overly critical of report The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
MI5 not fit to keep us safe, says father of Arena attack’s youngest victim The inquiry into the atrocity found it might have been prevented if MI5 had acted more swiftly on intelligence received in the months before. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Arena victims’ families point to ‘unacceptable failures’ by security services Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said he was ‘profoundly sorry’ his organisation did not prevent the attack. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Manchester Arena attack: families accuse MI5 of ‘devastating’ failure Comments come as official inquiry finds agency missed ‘significant opportunity’ to prevent 2017 atrocity The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
'We will never forgive you': Mum of South Shields Manchester Arena bomb victim Liam Curry blasts MI5 for failures Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2023
An extremist ‘Petri dish brimming with germs’: How Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised Terrorist had extremist parents who took him to fight in Libyan civil war, as well as Isis-supporting friends The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
'Significant opportunity' to prevent Manchester Arena bombing missed by MI5, inquiry finds A damning report finds the UK's domestic security service failed to act on key pieces of intelligence that the Manchester Arena bomber was plotting the attack. ABC News · Mar 2, 2023
Authorities ‘underestimated’ national security risk from Libya returnees UK-born bomber Salman Abedi flew in from the North African country four days before his attack on the Manchester Arena. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
MI5 boss ‘profoundly sorry’ at failure to prevent Manchester Arena attack Ken McCallum apologised after the public inquiry into the May 2017 atrocity. The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Manchester Arena terror attack inquiry finds bombing 'might have been prevented' An inquiry into the 2017 bombing at an Ariana Grande concert has found that intelligence should have been acted upon about suicide bomber Salman Abedi. Daily Record · Mar 2, 2023
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 Manchester Arena bombing: MI5 says sorry for 'significant missed opportunity to take action' The security service said it deeply regretted intelligence was not obtained'
Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023 MI5 boss 'profoundly sorry' after failure to stop Manchester Arena bomber Manchester Arena Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders released his findings on Thursday, which determined MI5 officers failed to take appropriate action on two key pieces of intelligence received in the months before the attack
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 MI5 missed chance to prevent concert attack, UK inquiry says An inquiry has found that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency didn't act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023 How family and Libya conflict radicalised Manchester Arena bomber Parents’ extremist views and civil war in the country of their birth set Salman Abedi on path to terrorism
Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2023 Manchester Arena attack might have been prevented if MI5 had not missed 'significant opportunity' to stop bomber, inquiry finds Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 Evidence heard at Arena public inquiry showed humanity at its best and worst, chairman says as he addresses victims' families 'I can only hope that we achieve something by our efforts'
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 'The failures exposed in this report are unacceptable' 'Those killed and injured in this murderous attack had every right to feel safe and protected, but as this Inquiry has demonstrated, they were failed at every level'
Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023 Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds But the mosque was not an ‘active factor or cause’ in the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his accomplice brother Hashem, the inquiry concluded
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 ‘Missed opportunities’ laid out in final report on Arena bombing Action earlier by MI5 ‘may have led to Salman Abedi’s activities being uncovered’ – report.
Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023 MI5 missed opportunity that could have avoided Manchester Arena terror attack, inquiry finds A “significant” missed opportunity by MI5 to act over a key piece of intelligence might have prevented the Manchester Arena terror attack, the inquiry into the bombing has found.
The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023 ‘Noxious absences and malign presences’: How Abedi brothers became bombers The final report into the Manchester Arena bombing details how Salman Abedi and his brother were radicalised.