Agency wants to give evidence anonymously, but lawyer says this ‘shakes confidence’ of families
MI5 risks undermining the confidence of the families bereaved by the Manchester Arena terror attack by asking to give evidence anonymously and from behind a curtain, a public inquiry has heard.
Lawyers representing victims’ families from the 2017 bombing, which killed 22 and injured hundreds, complained that the agency had an “obsessive focus on secrecy” and called on the inquiry chair to insist that its evidence be heard openly.
