The Manchester Arena bomber was addicted to painkillers and had attended anger management classes after punching a woman in the head at college, the inquiry into the attack as heard. Salman Abedi also spent time in Libya with an Islamist group called the February 17 Martyr’s Brigade and attended raids in the hunt for supporters … Read more
Jailed terrorist Hashem Abedi has admitted for the first time his involvement in planning the Manchester Arena bombing which killed 22 people, a public inquiry has heard. Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a rucksack bomb in a foyer area of the arena, known as the City Rooms, at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing … Read more
A convicted terrorist who has refused to tell the Manchester Arena inquiry about his contact with bomber Salman Abedi is set to be released from jail this week. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after he was found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State. While he was in … Read more
A convicted terrorist who has refused to tell the Manchester Arena inquiry about his contact with bomber Salman Abedi is set to be released from jail this week. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after he was found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State. While he was in … Read more
The Manchester Arena suicide bomber looked ‘like a Bond villain’ and a ‘terrorist’ moments before he set off his devastating rucksack device, a witness told the inquiry into the terror attack. Neil Hatfield was waiting to collect his four daughters after Ariana Grande’s concert on May 22, 2017, when he saw a young man ‘in the process … Read more
Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi spent almost an hour hiding in a CCTV blind spot before he detonated a bomb which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more, a public inquiry has heard. Abedi, 22, made three ‘hostile reconnaissance’ trips in the days leading up to the attack in May 2017, with footage at one point showing … Read more
New pictures show Manchester bomber Salman Abedi at a demonstration organised by Jeremy Corbyn’s pro-Palestine group two years before he killed 22 people in the terrorist atrocity. Libyan Abedi, 22, detonated a nail bomb at the Manchester Arena in May 2017 as crowds of people left an Ariana Grande concert. Two years earlier the suicide … Read more
Manchester Arena terror attack families’ fury at £350,000 legal aid for terror plotter Hashem Abedi to refuse to take part in court case Hashem Abedi, 23, spent thousands of pounds of legal aid for the inquiry Despite the huge sums, the bomb plotter refused to appear at proceedings Charlotte Campbell, 40, whose 15-year-old daughter Olivia … Read more
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was brought to the attention of M15 on at least 18 occasions before the 2017 terror attack, a public inquiry has heard. Security services received their first alert about him in 2010, and he was made a ‘subject of interest’ in 2014 but the file was dropped four months later. … Read more
The mother of a Manchester Arena bomb victim has blasted the 55-year-old jail term handed out to Hashem Abedi. Charlotte Hodgson’s daughter Olivia, 15, died after Salman Abedi who detonated a suicide bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at 10.31pm on May 22 2017. Salman’s brother Hashem Abedi is expected to die in jail after … Read more