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

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.

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.