[Margaret Pilkington]

This bomber was in the foyer, a place where bags are not checked. You can go into the foyer to buy tickets...is is not under the same scrutiny as the other entrances.
He may never have actually been in the arena. Bags are searched before you go into the venue..and ues queues do build up(I have been to the Manchester Arena a few times and bag checks when I was there were thorough(though I accept it may have changed now).
The bomber may not have had the explosive device in his bag, it may have been under his clothes, so would not have been picked up on a bag check.


Islamic state are going to claim it as one of theirs...it was(as far as they are concerned) a successful 'hit'.

I am just so sad for the parents who have lost children. (your children remain so no matter how old they are)

I am very angry that yet again a person of British nationality has perpetrated an act of hostility and terror.
He is NOT British...even if he was born here, raised here and holds a British passport. He obviously did not identify with the nation, he preferred to align himself to a barbaric seventh century creed.