(BBC) An ambulance commander “provided no leadership” for two hours after the Manchester Arena bomb because there was “very little” need for strategic thinking, the attack inquiry has heard.
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) deputy director Neil Barnes told a hearing he had waited for a tactical report before leaving home.
Mr Barnes was NWAS’s on-call “gold” strategic commander on the night.
He said tactical intervention was not needed as the scene was “managed well.”
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured when Salman Abedi detonated a device in the venue’s City Room foyer at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.
