For more than a year now, the evidence that has emerged from the Manchester Arena Inquiry has been, by turns, shocking and heart-breaking.
It began on September 7 last year, somehow continued through lockdown, and looks set to continue into next year, with the inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders yet to publish his second and third reports into the atrocity.
His first, published in June, found 'serious shortcomings' by the venue's owners SMG, their security contractor Showsec and British Transport Police.
Sir John ruled suicide bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified that night and, had he been, 'the loss of life and injury is highly likely to have been less'.
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