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Preventing extremist prisoners from radicalising people who visit them behind bars 'cannot effectively be achieved' under the current system, the chairman of the Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry has said.
Sir John Saunders has called for widespread change, saying prison conversations should be 'supervised' in the case of an inmate who 'poses a particular risk to others'.
He said the Prison Service needed a specific scheme 'designed to address the risk that radicalised prisoners present both to other prisoners and to visitors'. The current system, he added, means a prisoner's category of risk is solely determined by their risk of escape.
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MPs, meanwhile, heard suicide bomber Salman Abedi's repeated visits to a man convicted of terrorism offences 'did not trigger a further assessment, despite some of the wider things that were known' about him and his family. Labour said the fact 'does raise serious concerns'.
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, said in response a new 'approved contact scheme' due to be implemented this year would allow greater checks on visitors and phone contacts.
The radicalisation of Abedi into Islamic extremism was laid bare in the third official report arising from the long-running inquiry, which also said MI5 missed a 'significant opportunity' to take action which could have prevented the bombing in which 22 people were murdered.
Abedi, 22, visited convicted terrorist recruiter Abdalraouf Abdallah twice in prison, the second visit coming four months before the May 2017 atrocity. Two further visits had also been planned.
Islamic extremist Abdallah received a nine-and-a-half-year extended determinate sentence
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Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.A 207 page report has found two pieces of information about Abedi were assessed at the time by the security service as not being terrorism-related, but Chairman Sir John Saunders said, having heard from MI5 witnesses at the recent hearings, he considered that did not present an “accurate picture”, reports BBC News.One officer admitted they considered a possible pressing national security concern on one of the pieces of intelligence but did not discuss it with colleagues straightaway and did not write up a report that same day.As a result of this, Sir John said: “The delay in providing the report led to the missing of an opportunity to take a potentially important investigative action. Based on everything the security service knew or should have known, I am satisfied that such an investigative action would have been a proportionate and justified step to take.
Security service MI5 today said sorry for not preventing the Manchester Arena terror bombing after a report found opportunities were missed.
There was 'a significant missed opportunity to take action' on the part of MI5 that might have prevented the murders of 22 people in the Manchester Arena bombing, the third and final report of the public inquiry into the atrocity has found.
The wider family of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi ‘holds significant responsibility’ for his radicalisation while Manchester-based Islamic State ‘poster boys’ also encouraged him, the public inquiry into the atrocity has concluded.
Schools and colleges attended by Manchester Arena mass murderer Salman Abedi were not at fault in failing to identify he was at risk of radicalisation or of being drawn into terrorism, the third and final report arising from the public inquiry has found.