This week we are reporting from across the uk asking about life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business has been affected. Today i am in somerset. Let us go straight to manchester. As everyone knows, a Suicide Bomber evaded the security outside the arena and detonated his Bombjust as the concert was coming to an end, killing 22 people and injuring many more. It should not be necessary to have security to protect us from murderers but while the Terror Threat remains and shows no sign of going away we do need to have in place protective measures which provides security against threats but do not prevent as enjoying the freedoms that are part of our way of life. The enquiry has examined in detail the Security Provision against Terrorist Attacks at the Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017. I heard evidence from a 53 witnesses over a period of 32 days, lasting 154 hours, and considered over 1000 documents. For many of those witnesses, giving evidence was a very str
Enquiry, i have concluded that there were serious shortcomings in the security provided by those organisations which had responsibility for it, and also feelings and mistakes by some individuals. when the mistakes and shortcomings are set out in the report are considered it needs to be at the forefront of that consideration that responsibility for what happened, and for causing so many deaths and serious injuries, lies with salman abedi, the suicide bomber, and his brother, who assisted with the preparations. his brother is now serving sentences of life imprisonment for offences including the murders of 22 people. the brothers intended to cause as much harm as they could. no other person
Circumstances should be scrutinised with the greatest care. an important part of the report deals with what are cold to mist opportunities. there were a number of opportunities to identify salmon ibd s activities as being suspicious on the night before he detonated his bomb. what i cannot say with any certainty is what would have happened if those opportunities had not been missed. salman abedi might have been deterred from committing this outrage. that might have done the same thing elsewhere. he might have detonated his bomb earlier, in a different location, in or close. the report deals in detail with the shortcomings in security. i will not go into detail now. i invite those interested to read that the detail
His findings on security at the venue where 22 people were killed and hundreds injured in that attack in 2017. a lot to digests there. what were some of the main points that stood out for me? he said the manchester arena suicide bomber salman abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of the attack by those in charge of security. he said it was likely, i am quoting, that fewer people would have been killed. if there has not been a series of security failures. the public enquiry into the atrocity found that the bomber salman abedi should have been identified as a threat, and you heard they are, sir john saunders highlighting a number of missed opportunities to spot and intervene before he carried out his devastating suicide attack. let as
But i was, and i think that hurt more than anything. because elaine was a police officer. and again, after the explosion, you know, there was heroics and they stepped up, but the failings before the explosion was unforgivable as far as i m concerned. the btp officers on duty that night have since been commended for their heroism after the explosion. the force has also accepted the attack happened on its watch and it let the public down. but what about the private companies responsible for security at the arena? this is the journey that the bomber, salman abedi, took into the foyer, and up these stairs, to a carefully researched hiding place, out of sight for nearly one hour, in a cctv blind spot. two teenage stewards became aware of abedi after a member