Manchester Arena attack: Senior officers ‘may not have read new terror plan’

(BBC) A new counter-terrorism plan was issued 10 days before the Manchester Arena attack but it may not have been read by senior officers, an inquiry has heard.

Insp Simon Lear from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was charged with coming up with the plan issued on 12 May 2017.

He told the attack inquiry it was a “distinct possibility” officers had not seen it since it was marked as “Draft.”

The inquiry chairman also ruled medical reports for a friend of the Manchester Arena bomber can now be disclosed.

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.

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