There is no “definitive” answer as to why Salman Abedi became a mass-murdering suicide bomber but his radicalisation was driven by “noxious absences and malign presences”, the final report into the Manchester Arena attack concluded.
The 207-page report by chairman Sir John Saunders cited Abedi’s disengagement from mainstream English education and the absence of his parents who left their Manchester home for their native Libya in 2016, leaving no parental supervision or presence.
