I make clear that I have not simply accepted the conclusions of Operation Manteline uncritically. I have made my own assessment.” But he said two, John Atkinson, 28, and the youngest victim, Saffie-Rose Roussos, did have a chance.

We advise SISTEMA users always to use the latest version. With each successive version, bugs are eliminated and the functionality and usability of the program improved. SISTEMA version 1.1.3 was withdrawn, see SISTEMA newsletter 04-2010 as of 22.11.2010 (PDF, 28 kB, nicht barrierefrei) The report revealed that Abedi, of Libyan descent, was probably helped by other plotters who have never been caught. During the inquiry, a number of MI5 witnesses - including a senior officer known as Witness J - and detectives from North West Counter Terrorism Police gave evidence behind closed doors. HA was charged with a number of offences, including the murder of twenty‑two people, as a result of the investigation. Criminal trial of HAIsmail Abedi, 28 - who now calls himself Ishmale ben Romdhan - was aware of the hearing and had been given the opportunity to attend. Ismail was “uniquely placed” to assist the inquiry but refused to cooperate citing his right to avoid self-incrimination, the report said. First, it may be that these were steps that they instinctively took without any instruction from anywhere. I reject this as a likely explanation. Given what is known about them, I do not credit SA and HA with the intelligence or sophistication to have come up with the approach they took between themselves. I am satisfied that Operation Manteline [the police investigation] carried out a robust investigation into each one of those individuals.

The act of violence was viewed not as evidence of extreme religious ideology but of a bad temper. Saunders accepted that was a reasonable assumption, but wrote: “For the future, in my view, misogynistic violence should be recognised as a potential indicator of radicalisation.”In my view, there is a material possibility that this switch was acquired in Libya by SA between 15 th April 2017 and 18 th May 2017. I cannot conclude that this is more likely than not, but it is the most likely of a number of possibilities.