An ambulance service commander has agreed 'no leadership' was provided by him on the night of the Manchester Arena terror attack, an inquiry has heard. Deputy director at North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) Neil Barnes was the on-call Gold commander, the most senior NWAS officer, on the night suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated explosives at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017. Mr Greaney said: 'Just sitting at home, waiting for information... does not seem like leadership, let alone strategic leadership.' Mr Barnes was subsequently awarded the Queen's Ambulance Service Medal as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2018. The inquiry is looking at all the circumstances of the terror attack, carried out by Abedi.

Source: The Nation June 14, 2021 17:03 UTC