Arena victims’ families condemn ‘unacceptable failures’ by security services

The boss of MI5 has said he is “profoundly sorry” the Security Service did not prevent the Manchester Arena terror attack after Mr Saunders report concluded the May 22 2017 bombing might have been stopped if intelligence received months before had been acted on more swiftly

A lawyer representing 11 of the families at the inquiry said the report had been ‘deeply painful to read’ (Peter Byrne/PA)

Families of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena bombing have heaped criticism on the security services after the final report into the attack was published.

John Saunders, chairman of the public inquiry into the atrocity, released his third and final report on the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and whether the bombing could or should have been prevented.