H.M. Senior Coroner for Manchester has indicated to the families of the victims of the Manchester Arena Bombings that the Pre Inquest Review scheduled for 15th June 2018 will not be effective and will be a ‘short procedural hearing’.
The effect of this is that one year on the bereaved families are no nearer to learning the truth about what happened to their loved ones.
Elkan Abrahamson, a solicitor with Broudie Jackson Canter, has been instructed by one of the families and said:
There is something wrong with a process which is supposed to put the families and victims front and centre of the process but ends up marginalising them and making no progress. There may be sound legal reasons for some delay but there is no sense of urgency here even a year on.
It seems inevitable that a High Court Judge will be appointed – this could have been done a year ago. Even the Grenfell Inquiry, for all its faults, has at least begun in less than a year. We will be asking the Chief Coroner to explain the delay and to get things moving.
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