Lawyers representing the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena bombing were today (Tuesday) due to make submissions to the continuing inquiry into the atrocity.
From today (Tuesday) and for the rest of this week 'core participants' in the inquiry are being invited to make submissions to the chairman, Sir John Saunders.
These will concern four 'chapters' of evidence which have been heard over the last few months: chapter 9 (the 'experience' of the survivors); chapter 10 (the emergency services response on the night): chapter 11 (the detonation of the bomb and its effect); chapter 12 (the 'experience' of the 22 who died).
Today, QCs representing the bereaved families were due to make their submissions to Sir John.
Some 22 people died and a thousand others were hurt when suicide bomber Salman Abedi, a Libyan-heritage Salford University student from south Manchester, detonated a huge improvised device in a backpack as mainly young concert-goers were leaving at Ariana Grande concert at 10.30pm on Monday, May 22, 2017.
His brother Hashem Abedi, who was in Tripoli at the time of the blast, is serving a minimum 55 years behind bars, for helping his older brother prepare the Islamic State-inspired terror attack.
Sir John, in the first of three reports he will publish on the disaster, concluded in June last year there were 'serious shortcomings' by the venue's owners SMG, their security contractor Showsec and British Transport Police (BTP).
He ruled the terrorist should have been identified that night and, had he been, 'the loss of life and injury is highly likely to have been less'.
He is due to publish his final two reports next year.
Before today's submissions begin, Sarah-Jane Wilson, the head of North West Fire Control Ltd, is due to complete her evidence to the inquiry during the morning.
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