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The Manchester Bombing Inquiry: a lasting legacy?

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Will the findings of the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing prevent the same mistakes happening in the future? Richard Scorer & Shane Smith assess its conclusions
  • The inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 has exposed a multitude of issues leading up to and surrounding the attack.
  • Areas examined by the inquiry include security arrangements at the arena; the response of the emergency services; and the radicalisation of the bomber and the preventability of the attack.
  • The inquiry chair has emphasised the need to ensure that its recommendations are fully implemented, so that it may leave a lasting legacy of improvement.

On 22 May 2017, Salman Abedi, a young man born in Manchester but of Libyan parentage, detonated a homemade improvised explosive device at the Manchester Arena. Abedi seems to have been motivated by the ideology of the Islamic State. The bomb exploded at the end of a concert by the American pop singer Ariana Grande, in an area

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