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A teenager who dreamed of becoming a criminal psychologist would probably never have understood the "cruel criminal act" which took her life, the chairman of the Manchester Arena bombing inquiry has said.

Courtney Boyle, 19, from Gateshead, was a student at Leeds Beckett University and was waiting in the City Room foyer to pick up her younger sister Nicole at the end of the fateful Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 when she sustained unsurvivable injuries from the blast.

On Tuesday the inquiry, sitting in Manchester, began to look at how and in what circumstances each of the 22 victims died and to probe whether any inadequacies in the emergency response contributed to individual deaths and/or if they could have been prevented.

Criminology student at a Leeds university wouldn't have understood "cruel criminal act" which killed her says inquiry into Manchester Arena bombing