Family of Manchester Arena bombing victim are subject of new BBC Panorama film

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Panorama documentary.Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.Saffie-Rose Roussos, 8, was the youngest victim of the attack.

Tonight (March 7), her family will appear in a new Panorama film called Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie’s Story.As the Lancashire Telegraph reports, the documentary follows the Roussos family as they return to Manchester from their new home in Dorset to give evidence at the public inquiry into the bombing.The family spoke to BBC Panorama journalist Judith Moritz for Saffie’s Story, which sees Saffie’s father Andrew meet Lord David Anderson QC, who was the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation between 2011-2017.In 2017, the government asked Lord Anderson to conduct an independent review of M15 and counter-terror policing following the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London that year.After the meeting, Andrew told Panorama: “Questions need to be answered… why do we keep losing our loved ones?”Saffie’s mother Lisa, who was badly injured in the bombing, also spoke of a room that is dedicated to her daughter at the family’s new house.“Everything in this room is what she knew, that she’d seen,” she said. “That’s what we wanted.

We didn’t want anything changing. She’s here with me and I wouldn’t want her anywhere else.”Andrew, meanwhile, explained that the family decided to move away from Lancashire when Lisa was discharged from hospital. “Me and Lisa couldn’t face what we had as a family,” he told Panorama.Andrew and Lisa believed that Saffie had been killed instantly in the Manchester Arena attack for three years.