Manchester Arena inquiry: Police’s emergency plan ‘was out of date’

(BBC) The police emergency plan for Manchester Arena was nearly a year out of date when the venue was bombed, an officer has told the attack inquiry.

Emergency planner PC Katrina Hughes said she had struggled to keep plans up to date before the attack on 22 May 2017, which killed 22 people.

She told the Manchester Arena inquiry that budget cuts at Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were to blame.

The inquiry was told plans have been reviewed every three years.

In her statement, PC Hughes said it had been “an unachievable task to review all plans before they expired.”

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