He is still unable to work. He can’t use his left hand, bend his right leg, hear in his right ear or walk very far. With scant compensation, he has been left living off his savings and fearing for the future.
“It’s shocking,” he says, sitting on a pale grey sofa in his immaculate home in Liverpool. A cushion next to him says ‘reserved for Dad’. “My savings will run out. What does my future look like? Do I have to contemplate maybe going back to work with my injuries? I don’t know if I could get through a whole day working. I couldn’t go back to the job I had, it would be too physically demanding.”
Paul isn’t the only victim to struggle with the compensation system. Some victims of the bombing have given up on the process, while others have been refused compensation or been forced to appeal the settlement.Manchester Arena attack, said that the process of obtaining compensation had been “ridiculously difficult for our clients”.
A Government spokesperson said that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is “one of the most generous in the world”, paying out more than £158m to victims last year with “a dedicated team helping more than 450 victims of the Manchester Arena attack secure over £4.1m to date.” “Knowing I was the floor; not knowing what happened, I had a feeling of just being on my own. I think I tried to stand up but I had no idea the severity of my injuries at that time. Obviously I couldn’t stand,” he says.
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