The Arena Inquiry hears about criticisms that an expert has made of the fire and rescue service response on the night of the bomb
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service chose a "distant and detached" rendezvous point three miles from the Arena.

It was different from that used by other services during the initial response.

Fire engines did not arrive at the Arena until two hours after the attack
The expert identified that GMFRS was wrong to base its initial response on instructions from its "bomb card" not its "explosion card".

The suggestion is that the latter could have resulted in a different response and resources being deployed to the scene more quickly
However, the inquiry heard there is now a suggestion that the bomb card might not have been used.

Counsel to the inquiry said there will need to be investigation of why - if the correct card was used - it still took two hours to arrive at the scene
Paul Greaney QC said the inquiry will need to consider whether the absence during this period "contributed to the loss of life that occurred"
Inquiry hears that serving terrorist prisoner Abdalrouf Abdallah is considered to be a "witness with important evidence to give" in relation to Salman Abedi.

However, he refused to answers any questions when interviewed by the inquiry this year
Inquiry hears that in the 2014 investigation into Abdallah his phone was analysed and found to contain conversations about martyrdom with Salman Abedi
In February 2017 Abdallah was found to have an illicit mobile phone in HMP Altcourse on Merseyside.

When it was analysed, it was found to contain calls and attempted calls to Salman Abedi.

That was three months before the Arena attack
The inquiry was shown images of Salman and Hashem Abedi taken from their elder brother's Facebook.

One shows Hashem holding a rocket launcher.

But the Abedi family have refused to help the inquiry.

Mr Greaney said "they have a moral obligation" to do so

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19 Aug
The sentencing hearing for Hashem Abedi will get underway at 10:30am here at the Old Bailey in London.

In March, Abedi was convicted of murdering the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, the attempted murder of those who survived, and conspiracy to cause an explosion Image
Abedi disengaged from the proceedings several weeks into the trial.

Today the court will hear victim impact statements from those affected by the attack.

The background to the case is here bbc.co.uk/news/uk-519082…
Hashem Abedi is refusing to leave the Old Bailey cells for his sentencing hearing.

Mr Justice Jeremy Baker began proceedings just now by saying: “I have requested that Hashem Abedi to be brought to the Central Criminal Court”
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9 Jul
A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with membership of the banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action
Benjamin Hannam, 21, of north London, has been charged with - between December 2016 and January 2018 -belonging or professing to belong to a proscribed terrorist organisation.

He has also been charged possessing indecent images of children
Hannam has further been charged with two counts of fraud for allegedly making false claims in his applications to join the police, namely that he had not been a member of an organisation "similar to the BNP"
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24 Jun
A thread on some of the context around the @BBCPanorama we broadcast this week.

The networks we investigated are often in focus due to their potential to generate terrorist attacks.

But the violence and hatred encouraged is far broader
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Fascist Forge, the neo-Nazi website whose founder we exposed, hosted terrorist instructions and was used to promote racial hatred, but also sexual violence against women

One thread provided a pseudo-intellectual justification for rape. Another advocated “sexual terrorism”
In an encrypted chat group for forum members - managed by the founder - some users argued in favour of sexually abusing young teenage girls

The private chat group contained members of various neo-Nazi groups, including The Base, Atomwaffen Division and the Sonnenkrieg Division
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2 Feb
Sudesh Amman, the 20-year-old responsible for the attack in Streatham today, was jailed in December 2018 for 13 terror offences.

I was there and recall Amman smiling as he was sentenced.

He was released from prison around a week ago
He had pleaded guilty in November 2018 to six charges of possessing documents containing terrorist information and seven of disseminating terrorist publications.

One of the terrorist manuals he admitted owning was ‘Bloody Brazilian Knife Fightin’ Techniques’
Amman was first arrested in north London in May 2018 by armed officers on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.

He had come to the attention of counter terrorism police in April that year when officers were made aware of postings on the Telegram messaging app
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24 Jan
We have been investigating the American founder of the US-based militant neo-Nazi group 'The Base'.

We located him in Russia.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-512…
Rinaldo Nazzaro, who uses an alias for group purposes, left New York for St Petersburg less than two years ago.

One video we found shows him in a President Putin t-shirt.

Last year he was listed as a guest at a state security exhibition in Moscow
The t-shirt video was apparently filmed on a train in rural Russia last year
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24 Oct 19
I have written about the Aidan James trial here bbc.co.uk/news/uk-501569… but wanted to write a short thread too as it is an important case
He was convicted today, after a retrial, of one of the three offences with which he was first charged
This charge - attending a place (Makhmour, Iraq), on or before 1st October 2017, while terrorist training was given, to his knowledge or belief – related to the PKK
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