Police failed to check Manchester synagogue attacker's phones despite arresting him twice

Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, issued his apology as an associate of Jihad Al-Shamie was jailed for life for plotting with him to attack a UK training base two months earlier.

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has apologised for a missed opportunity to prevent last October's attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in which two people were killed.

Stephen Watson said he was ‘deeply sorry’ for the failure to examine Jihad Al-Shamie’s devices, which would have revealed his extremist views

Greater Manchester Police apologises because Jihad Al-Shamie's devices were not reviewed before the attack.

A British police chief has apologised for officers seizing phones from a jihadist who launched a deadly synagogue terror attack but not examining them.