(BBC) Families of those killed in the Manchester Arena bombing have told MI5 “please don’t let us down” as inquiry evidence starts to be heard in private.
Closed hearings, where only the inquiry chairman, legal team and Home Office lawyers will be present, will take place over the next three weeks.
Bereaved families, their lawyers and the press and public will be excluded on national security grounds.
Victims’ relatives have asked MI5 to “co-operate with the inquiry.”
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.
