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Arena bomber could have been 'deterred' from attack had he been stopped at Manchester Airport, MI5 officer admits

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Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi could have been 'deterred' from carrying out his murderous attack had he been stopped when he flew back into the country from Libya just days before he carried out the atrocity, a senior MI5 officer has accepted.

But the officer said at the time the security service had only 'fragments of what we now know to be the picture'. Pete Weatherby QC, for some families of victims, suggested at the public inquiry into the bombing on Tuesday that Abedi could have led MI5 or police directly to the bomb, had he been followed. READ MORE: Senior MI5 officer is 'so sorry' the Arena attack wasn't stopped, inquiry hears Stopping him at Manchester Airport on May 18, 2017, the QC suggested, would have alerted Abedi to

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