Article 5R5S4 Manchester Arena bombing: MI5 officer accepts ‘different actions would have stopped plot’

Manchester Arena bombing: MI5 officer accepts ‘different actions would have stopped plot’

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Salman Abedi was not stopped and questioned on return to UK from Libya, inquiry hears

A senior MI5 officer has accepted that stopping and questioning the Manchester Arena terrorist, Salman Abedi, when he returned to the UK from Libya could have led police to the bomb.

The inquiry being held into the atrocity, which killed 22 concertgoers and injured hundreds of others, was hearing evidence from an intelligence officer given the pseudonym Witness J.

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