(BBC) The chair of trustees at a mosque which was accused of turning a “blind eye” to extremist views prior to the Manchester Arena attack said he “would have done anything” to prevent the 2017 atrocity.
Fawzi Haffar said he felt Didsbury Mosque was “being used as a scapegoat” after it came under intense scrutiny during the Manchester Arena inquiry.
Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family worshipped at the centre.
Mr Haffar said the mosque had “no room for radicalisation.”
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Abedi detonated his homemade device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
