Jamie Whitehead
Live reporter

Thank you for joining us for our live coverage this afternoon.

The third, and final, report from the public inquiry into the deaths of 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena has been released.

We heard that security services missed a "significant" chance to take action that may have stopped the attack. Sir John Saunders added that one MI5 officer failed to act swiftly enough, and that the attacker should have been transferred to a counter terrorism programme.

Families labelled the findings of the report a "devastating conclusion".

As they gave emotional statements in Manchester, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she would do "everything possible" to avoid a repeat of the attack. MI5 said it was "profoundly sorry" the attack wasn't prevented.

Today's coverage was edited by Alexandra Fouché, Nathan Williams and me. It was written by Anna Boyd, Rachel Russel, Heather Sharp, George Wright and Aoife Walsh. Video clips and streaming were produced by James Harness and James FitzGerald.

We're winding our live coverage down now. Here's a round-up of what's being happening today:

• The Manchester Arena Inquiry's third and final report found that MI5 missed a "significant" chance to take action that might have prevented the atrocity
• Chairman Sir John Saunders said the reasons for this include a "failure" by an MI5 officer to act swiftly enough
• MI5 chief Ken McCallum said he was "profoundly sorry" that the security service did not prevent the attack
• The inquiry also found that bomber Salman Abedi probably received help from someone in Libya, contradicting an MI5 assessment

• Families gave statements, including Caroline Curry, the mother of victim Liam Curry, who said MI5 and associates of the attacker "played a part in the murder of our children"

• The report carried a list of recommendations, including that a scheme be created to prevent extremist prisoners from radicalising those who visit them
• Security Minister Tom Tugendhat vowed to implement the inquiry's recommendations, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman said "today is a difficult day"

The sister of one of the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena bombing says her family was let down.

Kelly Brewster, 32, died in the attack at the Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.

Claire Booth says authorities failed to protect people on that night.

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The mother of one of the Manchester Arena attack victims has said forgiving the suicide bomber was her protection "from bitterness, hate and negative emotions".

Figen Murray's son, Martyn Hett, was one of 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device on 22 May 2017.

"Anger was never on my radar," Figen tells BBC North West Tonight.

"He was not born as a terrorist... at such a young age somebody put these ideas in his head.

"The real culprit for me was always the ideology, not the person," she says.

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Judith Moritz and Daniel De Simone
Reporting from Manchester

The report concludes the Abedi family holds “significant responsibility” for the radicalisation of Salman and Hashem Abedi.

Those family members responsible include their father Ramadan Abedi, mother Samia Tabbal and elder brother Ismail Abedi, each of whom has held extremist views.

But the chairman concludes that, other than Hashem Abedi, there is insufficient evidence to attribute specific knowledge of the attack to other members of the Abedi family.

He finds that convicted terrorist organiser Abdalraouf Abdallah was a “key figure” in influencing Salman Abedi’s world-view, and that Raphael Hostey, who travelled to Syria from Manchester to join so-called Islamic State and was killed in a drone strike, is also likely to have been an influence.

The report also concludes that Mansour al-Anezi, a Muslim preacher from Devon who was close to an earlier would-be suicide bomber, had been a connection of significance for Salman Abedi.

Sir John finds the relationship “played a part in the development of Salman Abedi’s world-view, although the evidence did not enable me to say how great a part or in what way it operated".

The inquiry report, external is a 226-page document - here are a few more of its conclusions:

• If Salman Abedi had been stopped at Manchester Airport on his return from Libya, four days before the attack, this might have deterred him or revealed further information
• The educational establishments that Salman Abedi attended were not at fault in failing to identify him as being at radicalisation risk - the signs were not significant enough
• On Abedi's contact with convicted terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah, the report says evidence does not support the conclusion that Abdallah was persuading Abedi to carry out the attack

• Abedi's brother Hashem revealed that the pair were motivated by adherence to the Islamic State group

A key aim of an inquiry like this is to find out exactly what happened, and see what lessons could be learned from it.

Chairman Sir John Saunders makes a series of recommendations:

• That a scheme be created to prevent extremist prisoners from radicalising those who visit them
• That the Education department considers whether schools should include notes of any significant behavioural problems on records which follow a student when they move school
• That images of school pupils or college students handling firearms, explosives or other weapons that come to attention be recorded as a potential indicator of violent extremism
• That the government strengthens legislation on witnesses that are not complying with inquiries
• That the Home Office consider and respond "as a matter of urgency" to the 2021 review on laws relating to "hateful extremism, external"

Some more words from Security Minister Tom Tugendhat.

He's asked by a reporter about the difficulties experienced by the families of Manchester Arena victims in registering the deaths of their relatives. This is owing to the inquiry which has been happening.

The issue was raised earlier by Richard Scorer, a lawyer acting on behalf of 11 families.

Tugendhat says: "I can say that I'll be looking into it and seeing what we can do - what changes we can make, to make sure they're supported in this extraordinarily difficult time."

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"I share the sorrow that MI5 have expressed that this wasn't prevented," says Security Minister Tom Tugendhat.

"All of us are working to make sure that the improvements that need to be made, are made," he says.

Tugendhat says 104 recommendations have already been made by an internal MI5 inquiry following the 2017 attack - of which 102 have already been implemented.

He adds that he and the home secretary "will be looking through this report very carefully to make sure than any further changes are done".

More now from MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, who says he is "profoundly sorry" that the secret service was not able to prevent the Manchester Arena attack.

In a statement, McCallum said gathering "covert intelligence is difficult" but had the security service managed to "seize the slim chance we had, those impacted might not have experienced such appalling loss and trauma".

He said:

MI5 chief Ken McCallum is "profoundly sorry that MI5 did not prevent the attack", a statement says.

We'll bring you more detail on that shortly.

We've just heard statements from the victims' families after the Manchester Arena Inquiry published its final report into the attack.

Here's some pictures from the scene:

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Let's take a look back at the key elements of what inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said in his speech earlier. One area he focussed on was preventability:

• there was a significant missed opportunity by security services to take action that might have prevented the attack
• bomber Salman Abedi should have been the subject of a counter-extremism Prevent programme referral at some point in 2015 or 2016
• Abedi had been in contact with other extremists and the Prison Service needs a scheme designed to address the risk that radicalised prisoners present both to other prisoners and to visitors

Sir John also talked about radicalisation and how Abedi was influenced by so-called Islamic State, a radicalising peer group, family influence and the conflict in Libya:

• the Abedi family holds significant responsibility for the radicalisation of Salman and his brother Hashem Abedi. That includes their father Ramadan Abedi, mother Samia Tabbal and elder brother Ismail Abedi, each of whom has held extremist views
• he also believes Salman Abedi probably received assistance in the plot from someone in Libya
• Sir John also accused the Didsbury Mosque Abedi attended as having "weak leadership"

In terms of education, Sir John recommended the Department for Education consider whether schools should include notes of any significant behavioural problems (such as physical aggression or misogynistic conduct which may be indicative of violent extremism) on records which follow a student when they move school.

Sir John Saunders spoke a short time ago of a "significant missed opportunity" that might have prevented the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

The Home Secretary has responded to the findings of the inquiry this afternoon.

Suella Braverman said in a statement: "Today is a difficult day. On 22 May 2017, an act of pure evil took the lives of 22 people at Manchester Arena. My thoughts are with their loved ones and all those who had their lives changed forever.

"Over the past three years, the Manchester Arena Inquiry has carefully analysed critical evidence to ensure vital lessons are learned. I am grateful to Sir John Saunders and his team for their thorough and considered approach.

"I am committed to working with MI5, policing and partners to study the recommendations. Together we will do everything possible to prevent a repeat of this horrifying attack."

If you would like to read the whole of the Manchester Arena Inquiry's third and final report, it is here., external

Stay with us as we continue to bring you updates, analysis and reaction.

Figen Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett, is now speaking.

Today is about “moving forward”, she says - "for everyone concerned to learn from their mistakes and take heed of the recommendations".

It seems like terrorists “are always a step or two ahead of us and we need to act fast”, she says.

She talks of an “abundance of mistakes and failures by a raft of” organisations and people.

"We are not here to point fingers," she says.

But failure to implement recommendations risks "another catastrophic mistake".

We’re now hearing from Richard Scorer, principal lawyer of law firm Slater and Gordon, who is reading out a statement representing 11 victims' families.

Scorer says today's report has been deeply painful, but eye-opening.

The report provides less information than the families wanted, but they say it is clear there was a failure to assess key intelligence about Salman Abedi, to put it into proper context, and most "catastrophic of all", a delay in acting on it.

The families, through Scorer, go on to say that as a result of these failures, the possibility of preventing an attack was lost.

"This is a devastating conclusion for us," they say.

They add the failures exposed in the report are unacceptable, and the public is entitled to expect that information of national security importance is acted on quickly.

They trust Sir John's recommendations will be acted on, they also say.

Victims "were failed at every level before, during and after this attack", they say.

Curry says she hopes that one day "the whole truth will come out".

She calls for "the fugitive brother and parents" to face justice.

"We will never believe they were in this alone," she says, before adding that "forgiveness will never be an option" for those involved.

"From top to bottom - MI5 to the associates of the attacker. We will always believe that you played a part in the murder of our children."

Curry continues by saying the murderer of their children will never be forgiven.

She says the family believes MI5 and associates of the attacker played a role in the killing of their children.

Curry says they will spend the rest of their lives protecting their boys because "once you leave the safety of your home, you are on your own".

So many people were paid that night to protect their kids and failed, she adds.

"Nothing can bring Liam and Chloe back, nothing," she says.