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Manchester Arena bombing: 'I am truly sorry' - Greater Manchester Police chief

Stephen Watson, the chief constable for Greater Manchester Police, says the GMP's coordination "to the response of this atrocity was poor".

"To the families and the loved ones of those who died, I am truly sorry," he says.

Watson was appointed last year and he was not in charge when the Manchester Arena attack happened 2017.

3 November 2022

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