Overview
- A man drove into the gates of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation and launched a knife attack on 2 October last year, killing Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby and injuring others.
- Volunteer security guard Andrew Franks tackled the attacker, was stabbed three times, helped barricade the doors and has since been awarded a Pride of Britain trophy while still receiving medical care.
- Firearms officers shot and killed the attacker at the scene, but a stray police round passed through the synagogue doors and caused one of the deaths, a detail that has intensified scrutiny of the armed response.
- Chief Coroner Judge Alexia Durran has recommended converting the separate inquests into a public inquiry so classified MI5 intelligence can be reviewed in full.
- Survivors continue to recover from life-changing physical and psychological injuries and the proposed inquiry could examine what intelligence existed before the attack and how agencies and police acted on it.