British Transport Police assistant chief constable says officers should have been patrolling site of attack

A senior police chief has admitted that officers who failed to patrol the site of the Manchester Arena bomb “let the public down”.

An inquiry into the terrorist attack heard that two British Transport Police (BTP) officers left the area to take a meal break of more than two hours, involving a five-mile trip to buy kebabs.

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