(BBC) MI5 showed “institutional defensiveness rather than candour” after the Manchester Arena attack and for years continued to present an “inaccurate picture” of what it had known about the suicide bomber, a tribunal has been told.
Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
More than 250 people who were either bereaved by the bombing, or survived it, are suing MI5, MI6 and GCHQ at an Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) being held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Neil Sheldon KC, representing the security services, argued the claimants’ characterisation was “not fair.”
