'Blood on their hands': Could MI5 have prevented the Manchester attack?
When a bomb went off in the Manchester Arena during an Ariana Grande concert in 2017, the families of those who lost their lives that night thought their loved ones were just unlucky.
Salman Abedi had a"royal flush" of radicalisation, Matthew Wilkinson, a Muslim convert and academic expert on extremism told the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing in December 2021.The final report into the bombing described Abedi's journey into extremism as being fuelled by a mix of"noxious absences and malign presences".
Salman Abedi's older brother, Ismail, also refused to give evidence to the inquiry, leaving the UK for Libya in 2021.The brothers returned to the UK in 2012 and became heavily involved in gang culture and criminality. Salman Abedi drank alcohol, took drugs, and partied. Friends described him as someone who was quick to anger. He grew to hate the West and once punched a woman for wearing a short skirt.
At the age of 20, just 18 months before the Manchester Arena attack, he started to become overtly religious.But on the surface, there were still no obvious signs he had turned towards extremism. "They know the threat. They know what these people do. They know where to look and they were more prepared than what Manchester was that night."
The third and final report from the public inquiry addresses what was known by the security service and counter-terror policing prior to the atrocity, but as expected, there are wide redactions. Certain evidence was heard behind closed doors for reasons of national security.Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Islamist extremists
Chair of the inquiry Sir John Saunders said while it is not possible to conclude the attack could have been stopped there was"a significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented" it.Salman Abedi's Nissan Micra was found with chemicals inside it But the service"underestimated the risk" of people returning from fighting in Libya because of the focus on those from Syria.
While the report judged that Salman Abedi should have been subject to Prevent referral at"some point in 2015 or 2016", it also stated that it was"hard to say" what would have happened had he been enrolled on the programme. Among them is the need to do more to ensure education providers share relevant information about students so that more can be done to help those vulnerable to radicalisation.
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