John Saunders: Last News

A woman made the 'unwise' decision to overtake a cyclist on a rural road before she killed a Manchester Arena bomb hero in a crash, a court heard.

MI5 'lacked candour' when it gave evidence to the Manchester Arena bomb inquiry and other reviews of the atrocity, a lawyer representing families affected by the outrage has told a tribunal.

Naman Ramachandran U.K.-based sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has boarded worldwide rights to horror film “Mom.” Blue Finch will be selling the film at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM) in February. “Mom” will have its world premiere at FrightFest Glasgow in March. The film follows a struggling mother who is abandoned by her family and partner after a horrific incident.

A conclusion of 'suicide while undertaking a terror attack that murdered 22 innocent victims and injured many others' has been formerly recorded by a coroner who conducted a documentary inquest into the death of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi.

A formal inquest into the death of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi will be held, it was confirmed today.

It took three years and cost the public purse £32m. The Manchester Arena Inquiry finally came to a close on Wednesday, but instead of back-slapping and congratulations for a job well done, there was palpable frustration and fear that this vast and expensive effort may, in some respects, have been in vain.

Families of those who died in the Manchester Arena terror attack today called on the government and police to act to ensure lessons are learned after the long-running public inquiry into the atrocity came to a close.

Thousands of people are 'exposed to danger' because healthcare provision at major events is 'unregulated', the Manchester Arena Inquiry heard today.

The deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has told a public inquiry the force has learned lessons from its failures at the 2017 terror attack at Manchester Arena.

Police have increased patrols around Didsbury Mosque amid fear of attacks after it was criticised in the third and final report of the public inquiry into the bombing at Manchester Arena.

Preventing extremist prisoners from radicalising people who visit them behind bars 'cannot effectively be achieved' under the current system, the chairman of the Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry has said.

The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing has said he is preparing to sue security services over failures to act on intelligence that could have prevented the attack.

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Leaders at Didsbury mosque have responded to criticism they faced in the Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry, denying they showed 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged political debate about conflict in Libya before the atrocity. The south Manchester mosque was yesterday (Thursday, March 2) heavily criticised in the third and final report of the public inquiry into the attack.

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Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.A 207 page report has found two pieces of information about Abedi were assessed at the time by the security service as not being terrorism-related, but Chairman Sir John Saunders said, having heard from MI5 witnesses at the recent hearings, he considered that did not present an “accurate picture”, reports BBC News.One officer admitted they considered a possible pressing national security concern on one of the pieces of intelligence but did not discuss it with colleagues straightaway and did not write up a report that same day.As a result of this, Sir John said: “The delay in providing the report led to the missing of an opportunity to take a potentially important investigative action. Based on everything the security service knew or should have known, I am satisfied that such an investigative action would have been a proportionate and justified step to take.

Security service MI5 today said sorry for not preventing the Manchester Arena terror bombing after a report found opportunities were missed.

There was 'a significant missed opportunity to take action' on the part of MI5 that might have prevented the murders of 22 people in the Manchester Arena bombing, the third and final report of the public inquiry into the atrocity has found.

The wider family of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi ‘holds significant responsibility’ for his radicalisation while Manchester-based Islamic State ‘poster boys’ also encouraged him, the public inquiry into the atrocity has concluded.

The third and final report from the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb attack has been published.

Schools and colleges attended by Manchester Arena mass murderer Salman Abedi were not at fault in failing to identify he was at risk of radicalisation or of being drawn into terrorism, the third and final report arising from the public inquiry has found.