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The parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack say 'questions need to be answered' over why bomber Salman Abedi wasn't prevented from carrying out the atrocity.
Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, was one of 22 people who were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017. A BBC Panorama documentary, due to air tonight (Monday), follows Saffie's parents Andrew and Lisa as they return to Manchester for the public inquiry and shows them speaking with security experts about the attack.
Lord David Anderson QC, who in 2017 carried out an independent review of M15 and counter-terror policing in the wake of that year's terror attacks in Manchester and London, tells Panorama: "We spend three billion pounds a year in this country on counter-terrorism and that night it didn’t work."
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During the inquiry it emerged that Abedi had been assessed by MI5 in 2014, but that after a short investigation his file had been closed. Abedi had become close to Abdalraouf Abdallah, a man suspected, then convicted and jailed for facilitating the movement of money and fighters to Syria. After MI5 closed their file on Abedi, he visited Abdallah in prison.
Police had also confiscated Abdallah's phone on which there were 1,300 messages between the two, although Abedi was not identified as having been in communication with Abdallah until the year after the attack.
Nick Aldworth, former UK Counter Terrorism National Co-ordinator, who said he found it 'inexplicable' the relationship between Abedi and Abdallah wasn't followed up.
Mr Aldworth said: "You have someone here
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Panorama documentary.Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.Saffie-Rose Roussos, 8, was the youngest victim of the attack. Tonight (March 7), her family will appear in a new Panorama film called Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie’s Story.As the Lancashire Telegraph reports, the documentary follows the Roussos family as they return to Manchester from their new home in Dorset to give evidence at the public inquiry into the bombing.The family spoke to BBC Panorama journalist Judith Moritz for Saffie’s Story, which sees Saffie’s father Andrew meet Lord David Anderson QC, who was the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation between 2011-2017.In 2017, the government asked Lord Anderson to conduct an independent review of M15 and counter-terror policing following the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London that year.After the meeting, Andrew told Panorama: “Questions need to be answered… why do we keep losing our loved ones?”Saffie’s mother Lisa, who was badly injured in the bombing, also spoke of a room that is dedicated to her daughter at the family’s new house.“Everything in this room is what she knew, that she’d seen,” she said.
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