Kyle Lawler, who was 18 at the time, was told by Mohammed Agha, a colleague, that a member of the public had raised concerns about a man acting suspiciously.
Salman Abedi had been seen loitering with a large rucksack before the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017. He killed 22 people and injured many more when he detonated his homemade bomb.
Yesterday Mr Lawler told the Manchester Arena Inquiry that he had been “naive” about the danger of an attack which he felt “wouldn’t happen to me”. He added: “I felt unsure about what to do. It’s very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might have been an innocent young Asian male, sitting on the steps.
“I didn’t want people to think I was stereotyping people because of their race — he could have been someone waiting for his younger sister, people sit there often waiting for a train. I was scared of being wrong and branded a racist. If I had got it wrong, I would have got in trouble. It made me hesitant. I wanted to get it right and not mess up by judging someone by their race.”
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