Police have admitted for the first time that officers who failed to patrol the site of the Manchester suicide bombing had “let the public down”.
Two British Transport Police officers left the area to take a meal break of more than two hours that involved a five-mile trip to buy kebabs.
The most senior officer supposed to be on duty that night never turned up, having claimed that he was doing a “drive-by” inspection of an unnamed “sensitive site”.
Salman Abedi, 22, was in the main foyer of the Manchester Arena for nearly an hour before detonating his device, killing 22 people, but was not spotted because the area was not once patrolled by police officers.
There were no officers patrolling when Abedi made his
