ijust hope the whole process of this inquiry does what it s set out to do, what it s meant to do. ifeel the need to keep pushing for a change, to do the right thing. before leaving manchester, the family visit the memorial dedicated to the lives lost in the attack, to lay a time capsule for saffie. to think someone, another mother, could go through what i ve gone through and still going through and will do forever, is just heartbreaking. it sjust so sad. have you got the stuff for it? what do you want to do? she s not here, mate. she s with us at home.
i spoke to a police officer and ijust said, i m looking for my wife and my daughter. theyjust said, have a look around , and basically that s what we did. we just went from person on the floor to person on the floor to person on the floor. i kept thinking, help s going to come soon, just wait, help s going to come soon. it felt like a long time before somebody finally came over to me and asked me my name. and all i could say was saffie , ijust said saffie. cos i wanted them to find her. lisa was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries. andrew finally tracked her down at 06:30 the next morning. so, i went to icu, i took
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today, andrew and lisa will give their statements to the inquiry. as mum and dad for saffie, really we see it as saffie s voice. and, you know, we believe certain aspects of that night were catastrophically wrong so we re here to make sure it s aired, for thejudge to hear. and it s. it is very important for us to do. it is going to be a tough day. as a human being, a father, i cannot live with myself if i don t voice this. the response on that night was shameful and inadequate. what can we learn from this? the response of the security services on this atrocity should go down in history as one of the worst failures from start to finish. and that s what we should learn from this. thank you. i want to thank those that tried to help saffie that night
to the arena was flagged down. saffie s main injuries - were to her legs, particularly the backs of her knees. and there was obviously a lot of bleeding from those - injuries. unfortunately, - that wasn t noticed. or, wasn t corrected. and if that bleeding i is allowed to continue, eventually you run out| of blood, and the body will shut down. the people around saffie, l many of them did their best in appalling circumstances. but the basic medical techniques that could and should have been used weren t. -