Saffie
The Youngest Victim of the Manchester Terror Attack and Her Family's Fight for Justice
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Saffie
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Narrated by:
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Stewart Crank
About this listen
On 22 May 2017, a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of young fans leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured.
Saffie-Rose Roussos, aged eight, was the youngest victim to die in the attack. She had been at the concert with her mother, Lisa, and her elder sister, Ashlee.
While Ashlee’s injuries were not life-threatening, Lisa was so badly hurt doctors gave her a fifteen per cent chance of survival and a ninety per cent chance of being paralysed from the neck down if she did survive. Lisa would spend six weeks in a coma and only learned Saffie was gone when she regained consciousness.
As the bomb went off, Saffie’s father Andrew was outside waiting to pick up Lisa, Ashlee and Saffie, with his son Xander. He heard the explosion and embarked on a desperate, terrifying search for his wife and daughters through a city that was now more like a war zone.
Saffie is Andrew and Lisa’s story, one of unimaginable suffering and heartbreak as the family faced down a nightmare but also a story of inspiration, courage and optimism, as they search for happiness and meaning in their lives, whilst fighting MI5 to reveal what they knew about the bomber.
Most of all, though, this is a story of love, for each other and for Saffie, and how she was their guiding light in the very worst of times.
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Maybe being 70. maybe having been stalked and assaulted in the UK for 20 years...maybe having gone before a tribunal and lost, maybe having been targeted because of my religion and my looks....it adds up to facing truth head on.
There will always be attacks of all kinds, there will never be a perfect system because at least 95% of people in charge are not sociopaths or psychopaths or susceptible to the level of manipulation these puppets who commit acts of terrorism are.
Of course, people in places like MI5 must be the cream of the crop but we are all human...and incompetent people in any job have to be dealt with. However, good employees with respected work histories should not have to live in fear of losing everything in their lives because they are human.
The 5 to 8 percent of people in the group who are blatantly negligent should be dealt with within the criminal law system.
Reality is knowing terrible events will happen, negligent people will need to be dealt with but to expect a perfect world in situations like this is arrogant and it leads to people lowering themselves to the point of playing God.
When these events occur, finding answers and finding solutions has got to be handled as good people who are human and not flawless understanding the mistakes and making changes as a team.
It is terrible that a person with a good work record who makes positive contributions but makes a wrong decision is treated wrongly. Honest people whose non-action may have taken any chance of her survival will punish themselves for the rest of their lives, too...no one who has any depth and integrity would want this to happen.
It did happen and it will again. The only success in life comes from a willingness to change and grow so maybe some day the tides of good vs. bad will shift.
Criminal people get away with these awful events because they are mentally unstable...lost...afraid...angry....
The root of the fix is facing up to the fact almost all these sick minded people have shown signs from childhood...come from dysfunctional or inadequate parenting...something was missing. It doesn't mean their parents were bad people, though many are also dysfunctional, but that as a world, we are failing to find the answers in how people are not involved enough to out these people at the first signs of dysfunction....we spend all the billions after they are damaged goods.
People say they have the right to raise their k8ds the way they want but, no, they do not if they don't know how to parent or how to tackle issues as the signs appear...and nor do the powers to be have the right to spend money in the wrong places.
Until people get a grip on selflessness instead of selfishness and get off the greed and laziness. nothing is going to change and it will get worse....that is a given.
Tragedy, truth and reality.
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