(BBC) A father whose daughter was killed in the Manchester Arena attack has described the decision to block legal action against MI5 as “pathetic.”
Andrew Roussos’s daughter Saffie-Rose, eight, was the youngest of the 22 people killed in the bombing in 2017.
He said security services had “thrown everything they could” to stop a legal case by bereaved families and survivors who alleged MI5 failings in preventing the attack.
But judges on the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled the action could not continue as the case had been brought too late.
A Home Office spokesman said the government “noted” the judgement, adding MI5 “participated fully” [in] the public inquiry into the attack.
