Police have uncovered a cannabis grow following a house fire in south Manchester. Flames engulfed the three-storey building in Chorlton on Sunday morning.
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The third and final report from the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb attack has been published.
Volume Three, on radicalisation and preventability, contains the findings of inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders on whether the terror attack by Salman Abedi could have been prevented by MI5 and counter-terrorism police.
It also looks at the radicalisation of Manchester-born Abed and the planning and preparation of the attack which took place after an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
READ MORE: MI5 'missed significant opportunity' to stop Arena bomber, inquiry finds as Abedi's radicalisation scrutinised
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the suicide attack.
The public inquiry into the attack took place between September 7 2020 and February 15 2022 and two reports have already been published.
The first, released in June 2021, focused on security arrangements at Manchester Arena on the night of the attack. It highlighted a string of “missed opportunities” to identify Abedi as a threat before he walked across the City Room foyer and detonated his shrapnel-laden device.
The second volume, which was released in November 2022, focused on the emergency response to the attack. It delivered a scathing attack on the emergency services and ruled that care worker John Atkinson, 28, would probably have survived but for the failures on the night, while there was a “remote possibility” the youngest victim, eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos, could have lived with different treatment and care.
You can download part one of the report HERE.
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Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.A 207 page report has found two pieces of information about Abedi were assessed at the time by the security service as not being terrorism-related, but Chairman Sir John Saunders said, having heard from MI5 witnesses at the recent hearings, he considered that did not present an “accurate picture”, reports BBC News.One officer admitted they considered a possible pressing national security concern on one of the pieces of intelligence but did not discuss it with colleagues straightaway and did not write up a report that same day.As a result of this, Sir John said: “The delay in providing the report led to the missing of an opportunity to take a potentially important investigative action. Based on everything the security service knew or should have known, I am satisfied that such an investigative action would have been a proportionate and justified step to take.
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