The anger of Manchester Arena bombing families at MI5 apology 'that had to be dragged out of them'

The brother of one of those who died in the Manchester Arena terror attack has dismissed an MI5 apology for failing to prevent the 2017 bombing.

Lee Hunter, the brother of beauty therapist Lisa Lees, 43, who died in the attack, said the apology was 'dragged out of them' six years after the atrocity.

Today (Monday) Lee spoke to the M.E.N. a week after a damning report of independent inquiry into the atrocity, and said families remain 'angry and upset' that the inquiry has revealed only limited detail about the 'significant missed opportunity' to stop suicide bomber Salman Abedi. Lee said there had been 'no real justice'.

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Last week MI5 apologised for not preventing the bombing after a report found opportunities were missed to sop the bombing, which claimed the lives of 22 people and left a thousand others injured.

It followed the third and final report of the independent inquiry into the bombing which revealed limited extra detail of what the security services knew about suicide bomber Salman Abedi in the months and years before the attack. Much of the evidence provided by the security services to the inquiry was held in secret because of fears over national security.

Abedi, who first came to the attention of MI5 in 2010 when he was 15, had been downgraded from his status as a 'subject of interest' in 2014 but two weeks before the arena attack MI5 received intelligence that he had 're-engaged in Islamist extremist activity'. A meeting to assess this information was scheduled to take place but the date set was nine days after the attack.

The inquiry report also found one of two key pieces of intelligence about Abedi - neither was passed