Manchester bomber’s brother faces trial over the attack

The brother of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi will be tried in Libya over his alleged role in the attack. Hashem Abedi, 20, was arrested in Tripoli by members of the Rada Special Deterrence Force a day after the attack, along with the brother’s father, Ramadan Abedi, who has since been released. Hashed is still in custody and will go on trial in the next two months, according to the BBC, as he is thought to have played a ‘key role’ in the terror outrage carried out by his older brother which left 22 dead. British police said in May that Salman Abedi, 22, did not act alone and they wanted to speak to his younger brother. Hashed had left Britain for Libya on April 16 this year, a month before the attack in Manchester, according to Libya sources. Another male relative of the Abedi’s has been held after his credit card was allegedly used to buy ingredients for the bomb, according to Libyan authorities. The family are originally from Libya, but fled during the Gaddafi dictatorship with the Abedi’s father returning to fight with opposition forces when the uprising began in 2011. Salman Abedi killed 22 people when he detonated his bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22. Al Sadiq Al-Sour, chief prosecutor for the authorities in Libya, told the BBC: “All the signs point to Hashem being directly involved, assisting his brother and collecting the materials for the suicide bombing which took a lot of innocent lives in Manchester. “[Other individuals] should be questioned to get more information about the suspects, their movements, their ideologies. If there were any signs they were going to carry out the attack. "They are not necessarily suspects themselves but it's important to get information from them."