Manchester Arena inquiry: Stewards ‘not trained properly’

(BBC) Stewards on duty on the night of the Manchester bombing did not think Salman Abedi was a threat because they had not been trained properly, a security expert has told the attack inquiry.

Col Richard Latham said “a managerial fault” meant Showsec staff Kyle Lawler and Mohammed Agha failed to respond to suspicious behaviour.

They were “hardly briefed,” he said.

The inquiry heard lives could have been saved if security had been quicker to shut the doors of the foyer.

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured as they left an Ariana Grande concert when Abedi detonated a bomb on 22 May 2017.

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