Questions 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.
09.10.2021 - 19:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The last moments of John Atkinson's life must have been as terrifying as they were painful.
More than once he told the heroic few tending to his terribly injured legs 'I'm going to die' as he waited, and waited, to be removed from the foyer where suicide bomber Salman Abedi had just detonated a huge, improvised device packed with nuts in his rucksack.
But those who went to his aid just didn't have the expertise - or the tourniquets - to stem the catastrophic bleeding that led to his death.
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Questions 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.
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