Legislation around crucial public inquiry witnesses could be strengthened to 'restrict their movements' after the elder brother of the Manchester Arena mass murderers skipped the country despite having 'highly relevant information to give'.
The Government and the Ministry of Justice is facing a call from Sir John Saunders, the chairman of the public inquiry into the bombing, to make a change to an Act of Parliament after the case of Ismail Abedi, who was found with 'a significant volume of extremist material' two years before the atrocity.
The elder brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and now jailed Hashem Abedi, a warrant for Ismail Abedi's arrest remains in place after he was convicted in his absence of failing to comply with a legal requirement to attend the inquiry and give evidence.
