Manchester Arena Incident (22/05/2017)

[Tetchytyke]

What I want to know is what happened to the scum that bought the pictures?

We've never seen these pictures, so I expect that an agency or newspaper bought them up to prevent their publication. It happens all the time.

I'll be making myself unpopular by saying this, and I'm in no way condoning what he did, but 4 years in jail for what was really just petty theft is far too much.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal and I'd have chopped his hands off.

 

[Dentonian]

We've never seen these pictures, so I expect that an agency or newspaper bought them up to prevent their publication. It happens all the time.

That's a pleasant surprise. I had visions of the media actually buying them for publication. After all one such corporation on the other side of the pond used the attack as a hard sell for advertising rights on its website.

 

[Groningen]

Well bad that it happened, but now he has his accommodation he always wanted. Free food and housing. Maybe should have sentence him, but have him put back on the street again. Maybe there should have been more control after the attack of people entering the Arena. With 33 years of age he will not reach pension in prison.

 

[Darandio]

Maybe there should have been more control after the attack of people entering the Arena.

He was literally there straight after the incident happened. I'd imagine it's impossible to co-ordinate/control thousands of screaming people in the immediate aftermath of such an incident.

 

[Groningen]

OK; so there was still chaos when he appeared.

 

[Crossover]

OK; so there was still chaos when he appeared.

It sounds like it - I don't think he appeared too long after the incident itself

 

[Bungle965]

The report has been published by Lord Kerslake into the emergency response after the attack.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...omb-14461431#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare
Sam

 

[deltic]

The full report can be found here https://www.kerslakearenareview.co.uk/media/1022/kerslake_arena_review_printed_final.pdf - it is full of praise for BTP. Northern Rail and Network Rail staff at Victoria station who were first on the scene, who provided first aid, helped to move the injured to casualty station set up on Victoria Stn concourse and in the case of the latter two groups refused to leave attending the injured when asked to do so by police who remained concerned about possible further attacks. Apart from a major fiasco with the fire brigade where communications issues led to them being prevented from arriving on site for 2 hrs after the explosion much to the frustration of fire crews the whole incident seems to be have been responded too extremely well and is a credit to those concerned and the major planned exercises that had taken place previously.

 

[Busaholic]

The full report can be found here https://www.kerslakearenareview.co.uk/media/1022/kerslake_arena_review_printed_final.pdf - it is full of praise for BTP. Northern Rail and Network Rail staff at Victoria station who were first on the scene, who provided first aid, helped to move the injured to casualty station set up on Victoria Stn concourse and in the case of the latter two groups refused to leave attending the injured when asked to do so by police who remained concerned about possible further attacks. Apart from a major fiasco with the fire brigade where communications issues led to them being prevented from arriving on site for 2 hrs after the explosion much to the frustration of fire crews the whole incident seems to be have been responded too extremely well and is a credit to those concerned and the major planned exercises that had taken place previously.

The situation with the fire crews sounds remarkably similar to their response to the first incident in the 7/7/2005 London bombings i.e. the Aldgate train, but as there was never a Public Inquiry this aspect was never really scrutinised. It seemed that neither the Labour government of the time or its Conservative coalition successor (Home Secretary Theresa May) had any appetite for hearing any criticism or learning lessons from what transpired.