The suspected Liverpool terrorist could have blown himself up with a device similar to the one used in the Manchester Arena bombing, it is understood.
28.10.2021 - 19:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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.
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
The suspected Liverpool terrorist could have blown himself up with a device similar to the one used in the Manchester Arena bombing, it is understood.
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