Manchester Arena bomb victims call for release of mosque action plan

(BBC) The charity watchdog has been urged to reveal its action plan for a mosque criticised in the Manchester Arena bomb inquiry.

Richard Scorer, a solicitor acting for some of the victims’ families, has called for transparency.

In response the Charity Commission said it needed confidentiality in its dealings with the mosque.

Twenty-two people were killed in the attack by suicide bomber Salman Abedi in May 2017.

The inquiry chaired by Sir John Saunders cleared Didsbury Mosque of any involvement in the radicalisation of Abedi, who worshipped there, but said it was guilty of “wilful blindness” to extremism.

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