The youngest victim of the Manchester bombing.
Saffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Bombing. She was only eight. That has to be a tragedy in anybody's book. She was one of twenty-two claimed fatalities on that occasion. The Manchester Arena Inquiry under the Chairmanship of Sir John Saunders has now reported. He had also previously acted as Coroner into the various deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Saunders_(English_judge)
https://manchesterarenainquiry.org.uk/volume-two-emergency-response/
It has identified inexplicable delays in the way the Police reacted, preventing emergency services from responding for up to two hours. The father of Saffie has claimed this was a factor in her death. That appears not only possible but likely. His bitterness, if the reported circumstances are true and accurate, is understandable. It also leaves the door open for possible civil proceedings for damages for negligence not only for him, but for all the families affected, that could conceivably run into millions of pounds.
Strange and conflicting elements of the story surrounding the event and the explosion have been raised by others. (See below) Some have even questioned whether a deadly device was detonated as described. It was said to be a suicide bomber but the accused Salman Abedi, well known to the British Secret Services as a threat, was apparently recorded by police, as seen walking away before or after the bomb went off. I have not read the Inquiry report but what is the forensic/genetic evidence of Abedi? A proper crime scene investigation would have revealed it, if indeed he blew himself up.
It is reported that the device included multiple bolts that caused the fatal injuries. Safie was about five metres or sixteen feet away from the bomber. She received no less than sixty-nine external injuries and about a further thirty internal ones. At that distance and on such a small target, it is hard to explain. Even more difficult to explain is how her mother who was holding her hand at the time, received only injuries to her legs requiring hospital attention. One writer (below) claims she was however in a coma for several weeks before she learned of her daughter's death. There is some indication of arm and leg injuries in the funeral photograph below but these are hard to reconcile with the nature of the claimed device, the distance from it and the severe injuries sustained by her daughter right next to her.
It apparently took a little over thirty minutes following the explosion to get her into an ambulance and a further seventeen minutes to get her to hospital where nine minutes later at 11.26 pm she was pronounced dead. Her father asserts that if the emergency services had been better co ordinated with specialist first aiders, her life might have been saved. I am left wondering how her mother escaped a similar fate, not to mention her sister, who appears not to have been injured at all.
Following from: https://news.sky.com/story/manchester-arena-bombing-father-of-girl-8-who-died-refuses-to-accept-emergency-services-apologies-12737467
She was holding her mother's hand at the end of the concert when they entered an area known as the City Room where Salman Abedi detonated his bomb.
Saffie was about five metres from Abedi when the bomb was detonated.
She remained in the City Room for 26 minutes, during which she time she drifted in and out of consciousness but she was able to give her name to a member of the public who helped her.
Shortly before 11pm, police officers and two members of the public placed Saffie onto an advertising hoarding that was used as a makeshift stretcher.
She was still conscious as she was carried out of the City Room, down the stairs, through a tunnel and onto Trinity Way where an ambulance arrived just after 11pm.
Five minutes later, Saffie was placed into the ambulance and her level of consciousness "fluctuated", the inquiry heard.
For the next 11 minutes, Saffie was given emergency care in the back of the ambulance and at one stage, she briefly spoke.
The ambulance left Trinity Way for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital at 11.17pm - 46 minutes after the bomb exploded - and the journey took six minutes.
Saffie was treated by a trauma team in the hospital's resuscitation room and went into cardiac arrest at about 11.26pm.
A post-mortem examination on Saffie identified 69 external injuries in addition to internal wounds, including injuries to her lungs and liver and internal bleeding.
A panel of "blast wave" experts, using the post-mortem report, photos and a computerised scan, identified that Saffie suffered a total of 103 injuries and stated: "Graphically, this can be described as equivalent to the energy of more than 15 handgun bullets."
Following from: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/saffiethesuperstar
We all remember the day May 22 Manchester Arena. The moment when we all learned 8yr old Saffie Rose Roussos died and many others involved. I like you was emotionally affected by this & still very much am to this day! Lisa (Saffie's mum) was also caught in this and has life changing physical&emotional injuries. Lisa only learned of her daughters passing weeks after, when she came out of a coma.Husband Andrew has been an insipiration to anyone who wants to be the best father or husband in life ! Aswel as dealing with the funeral of his daughter he now has to care full time for his beautiful wife and loverly son Xander A world torn apart for the hard working Roussos family.Andrew has had to put the family Chipshop in Leyland Manchester upforsale so he can concentrate on caring for his wife&son.
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