![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/manchester-arena-bombing-response-shows-nothing-learnt-from-7-7-attacks-bereaved-mother-says/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000000327656_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqeO2lkYdnzRpV8w1uK3CcylJKlmi8UgCHb3e31bLc6oU.jpeg&description=In his report, Sir John Saunders said the response of the police, ambulance service and fire service was 'far below the standard it should have been'. An 'unduly cautious' approach by a senior ambulance officer saw all but three paramedics stopped from rushing to the scene, meaning dozens of the wounded and dying were deprived of treatment for too long. At the same time, fire crews took more than two hours to even attend the incident after a station manager chose to mobilise resources three miles from the Arena amid fears over safety. Sir John said the authorities had failed to learn the lessons of the July 7 bombings in 2005 because 'no one really thought it could happen to them'. Mrs Jenkins, 76, said: 'I do feel that if you join the ambulance service or the police or fire brigade you've joined to help people and save lives, not to sit outside the Arena or go to the wrong Tube station or not go down a tunnel or drive away from the area, as happened at Manchester and on 7/7.' In the days that followed the London bombings, Mrs Jenkins and her three other children spent days going from hospital to hospital clutching Emily's photograph, as well as visiting the route she would have taken through King's Cross and Russell Square stations, in the hope of finding her. Mrs Jenkins, from Kew, south west London, has since campaigned for modern computer technology to be deployed to provide up-to-date information to families desperate for news of their loved ones following a terror attack or civil emergency. 'It's clear nothing has been done," she said. "Hospitals don't want grieving families getting in the way, but we felt we had no choice as we were being told nothing about whether Emily had been found, whether she was being treated somewhere or if she had died and her body was being held somewhere. It was just wrong that we should have had to do that or that the Manchester families had to do that.'){kind=link}
Sarah Jenkins says slowness to act reminded her of London atrocity, where she had to wait for 11 days to be told of daughter’s death
The mother of a young woman killed in the 7/7 London bombings has said that “nothing has changed” in the response of the emergency services to the aftermath of terror attacks.
Sarah Jenkins said the families of the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena attack had been as badly let down as hers was 12 years earlier, when her daughter Emily was killed in the terror attacks on the capital’s bus and Tube network.
Mrs Jenkins had to wait for 11 long days for confirmation that Emily, 24, was among those killed during four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists that targeted commuters during the morning rush hour.
Speaking after the publication of the damning report into the Manchester Arena bombing, Mrs Jenkins told The Telegraph: “It beggars belief to think that this agony for families of victims is still going on.