The Arena bombing happened after the security services let us down. Why won't they tell us why?
'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.
Two crucial pieces of intelligence about Abedi, received by MI5 in the months before the bombing, were 'not fully appreciated', but were later classed as being 'highly relevant'. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Volume 3 What confidence can we have, without proper scrutiny, that the errors exposed will not be repeated?
Hindsight is unforgiving - but the question still remains. Should we as a modern democracy be entitled to shine a brighter light on the work of the people tasked with keeping us safe? Opportunities were missed, tragedy followed. Aren't the families entitled to know the information that wasn't acted on?
Nonetheless, during those secret hearings the security services were accused of being more interested in protecting reputations than admitting to mistakes. MI5 'failed to keep the country safe', John Cooper QC, who represents the biggest group of families said at the time.He and another family QC, Pete Weatherby, accused the security services of hiding behind national security concerns to keep key intelligence about the suicide bomber secret.
Abedi, weighed down by a huge improvised device in his backpack, could and should have been identified that night and, had he been, the toll of dead and injured would have been less.One of those who perished, John Atkinson, a 28-year-old care worker from Radcliffe, could have survived with better treatment.
It set out to find failures, and there were plenty. But it also sought to celebrate the individual acts of heroism and courage shown by the emergency services and members of the public that night. It began with a series of 'pen portraits', tributes in the form of words, pictures and videos from family members.
The response was 'shameful and inadequate', Saffie's father, Andrew Roussos, told the inquiry during his devastating and powerful evidence.
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