Yesterday morning, Home Secretary Amber Rudd warned the US government to stop leaking details from the investigation into the Manchester bombing. Her words appear to have fallen on deaf ears: last night, photographs taken at the scene of the blast, showing a possible detonator used by the bomber, appeared on the New York Times website. The pictures, in which bloodstains on the floor were clearly visible, were the type of detail which would only emerge, if at all, during a court case in the UK, rather than in the hours after the bombing.
The backlash from the British government has been furious – a senior Whitehall source told The Daily Telegraph that the leaks were ‘unacceptable’ and risked compromising the investigation. The National Police Chiefs’ Council said the information which had been revealed in the US media was a breach of trust.
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