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(JEWISH GROUP) Synagogue attack survivors 'should not be excluded'
A coroner has been urged to let survivors of the Manchester synagogue attack play a part in the inquest of two men who were killed.
Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby died when Jihad Al-Shamie attacked the Heaton Park synagogue in October last year.
Andrew Franks was stabbed by Al-Shamie in the incident on 2 October 2025 and Yoni Finley was injured by a police bullet meant for Al-Shamie.
Their lawyers argued that the inquest into the two men's deaths should allow them to ask questions and have evidence disclosed to them as "interested persons", in the same way the families of the men who died would.
The lawyer for the inquest, Ed Pleeth, said designating survivors as interested persons "would be novel".
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