Terrorist friend of arena bomber freed from jail despite Parole Board concerns Officials consider Abdalraouf Abdallah still poses a high risk of serious harm to the public. Evening Standard · Nov 26, 2024
Call for change over prison visits to convicted terrorists to stop radicalisation after Manchester Arena bombing The chairman of the public inquiry into the attack said preventing prisoners from radicalising others 'cannot be achieved' under the current system Manchester Evening News · Mar 7, 2023
An extremist ‘Petri dish brimming with germs’: How Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised Terrorist had extremist parents who took him to fight in Libyan civil war, as well as Isis-supporting friends The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
MI5 boss 'profoundly sorry' after failure to stop Manchester Arena bomber Manchester Arena Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders released his findings on Thursday, which determined MI5 officers failed to take appropriate action on two key pieces of intelligence received in the months before the attack Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023
How family and Libya conflict radicalised Manchester Arena bomber Parents’ extremist views and civil war in the country of their birth set Salman Abedi on path to terrorism The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
Arena bomber's family 'holds significant responsibility' for his radicalisation, while Islamic State 'poster boys' encouraged him, public inquiry finds Chairman Sir John published findings on how Salman and Hashem Abedi were radicalised. Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023
MI5 missed 'significant opportunity' to take action which might have prevented Manchester Arena bombing, inquiry finds Salman Abedi could have been stopped at Manchester Airport on his return to the UK from Libya days before the bombing, the inquiry chairman has said Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023
The six missed opportunities before the Manchester Arena bombing MI5 received intelligence on Salman Abedi twice in the months before the bombing, but failed to detect plot The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023
Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry has cost taxpayers £26.7m so far Most of the money - some £18.6m - has gone on legal fees, including those on lawyers representing Ismail Abedi Manchester Evening News · Mar 30, 2022
BBC Panorama: Parents of Saffie-Rose Roussos ask why Manchester Arena bomber wasn't stopped Saffie-Rose was just eight when she was killed in the attack Liverpool Echo · Mar 7, 2022
BBC Panorama: Parents of Manchester Arena attack's youngest victim Saffie-Rose Roussos ask why bomber wasn't stopped 'We spend three billion pounds a year in this country on counter-terrorism and that night it didn’t work' Wales Online · Mar 7, 2022
Parents of the youngest Manchester Arena terror attack victim ask why bomber wasn't stopped Saffie-Rose Roussos was just eight-years-old when she was killed in the 2017 atrocity Manchester Evening News · Mar 7, 2022
Manchester Arena bomber 'talked about killing people' for years as MI5 secrets unveiled Salman Abedi had flown from Libya in the days before he detonated a killer bomb, but he was never stopped at the borders after MI5 didn't pass intelligence on to police Daily Mirror · Feb 16, 2022
Manchester Arena bomber's pal dismissed terror attack plans as 'bravado' Salman Abedi had often spoken of 'killing people in a public place', the inquiry heard Wales Online · Feb 15, 2022
Manchester Evening News · Feb 15, 2022 Salman Abedi 'talked about killing people in a public space' for years before he detonated Manchester Arena bomb, inquiry told A prison officer told of a conversation he had with convicted terrorist recruiter Abdalraouf Abdallah as the public inquiry into the atrocity continued
The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2022 Police had intel on Manchester Arena bomber years before attack, inquiry told Detectives found Salman Abedi had exchanged 1,300 text messages with another suspected terrorist in 2014
Manchester Evening News · Feb 14, 2022 Police held messages between Manchester Arena bomber and terrorist recruiter years before attack, inquiry told Inquiry chairman 'will reach a conclusion over whether an intelligence unit should have found things out which they didn't'
Manchester Evening News · Feb 6, 2022 'Dad, look what I've done now': The hunt for the people who poisoned the mind of the Manchester Arena bomber His parents, brothers and Islamist associates - at least six of whom are convicted terrorists - are alleged to have been potential radicalisers