Questions will be asked 'without fear or favour' during 'closed' hearings of Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry, QC vows
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukQuestions to MI5 and counter-terror policing witnesses will be asked - and their evidence challenged - 'without fear or favour' when behind closed doors hearings of the Manchester Arena public inquiry start next week.
The 'closed' hearings - not open to the press or the families of bombing victims - will see 14 witnesses give evidence over three weeks - four from MI5 and 10 from counter-terror policing, together with two inquiry-instructed experts.
The inquiry has moved to consider 'preventability' on the part of suicide bomber Salman Abedi. The hearings, being held to protect national security, are likely to assess what was, or wasn't, known about him, and others, and how intelligence was acted on.
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