More than 1,000 messages between a 'Salman' and a now-convicted terrorist recruiter were discovered by police in 2014 in a counter-terror operation, but the person wasn't identified as bomber Salman Abedi until after he murdered 22 people at Manchester Arena in 2017, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.
Some exchanges between Abedi and Abdalraouf Abdallah were 'capable' of revealing Abedi's extremist mindset, the inquiry heard on Monday.
Abedi sent 'selfie' images of himself to Abdallah in mobile phone messages, others referenced his full name and there was also a video of him.
