MI5 didn't tell police about intelligence 'highly relevant to the planned attack' just months before the Manchester Arena bombing, the public inquiry was told.
At the time, suicide bomber Salman Abedi was a 'closed subject of interest' but 'continued to be referenced from time-to-time' in intelligence reports, an official report into the terror attacks in the UK in 2017 stated.
The inquiry heard on Wednesday that on two separate occasions in the months before the attack, intelligence on Abedi was received by MI5 which was not 'fully appreciated' at the time.
It was assessed to 'relate not to terrorism, but to possible non-nefarious activity or to criminality on the part of Salman Abedi'.
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