Figen Murray on terrorism, the legacy of the Manchester Arena inquiry and wanting to speak to a young Salman Abedi

The legacy of the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing must be to 'change the face of counter-terrorism' and guarantee 'accountability' at all public venues in the future, the mother of one of the 22 who lost their lives in the atrocity has said.

After 30 months of harrowing but crucially important evidence, the inquiry will finally come to an end later today (Thursday, March 2) with the publication of the chairman's final report of three - a volume widely expected to heap criticism on MI5 and counter-terrorism policing over the monitoring through the years of mass murderer Salman Abedi.

The evidence heard by the inquiry as a whole, it was said, would likely have an 'enduring effect' on Greater Manchester and its people forever.

But it must, in memory of the 22 and their families, go a great deal further and lead to real, visible change nationally and internationally in terms of emergency services planning and preparation, venue security, training and awareness and understanding, said Figen Murray, who lost her son Martyn, 29, in the terror attack of May, 2017.

Figen tours schools speaking to students to promote radicalisation awareness and has revealed today she has visited Abedi's former high school in Burnage several times. Ahead of the report's publication, she told the Manchester Evening News she would like to have spoken to a young Abedi.

Today's report has been compiled on evidence heard surrounding the planning and preparation that was carried out for the attack by the Abedi brothers, the radicalisation of Salman Abedi and whether the atrocity could have been prevented. It's likely to address what was known by the security services and counter-terror policing prior to the atrocity, but wide