55 years for the Manchester Arena bomb maker

The brother of the Manchester suicide bomber will serve at least 55 years in jail for making the nail bomb which killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande concert. Hashem Abedi, 23, escaped a full life sentence under new laws because he was under 21 when the bomb ripped through the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017. But Abedi was given the longest determinate sentence ever passed in the UK for helping carry out one of the country’s worst terrorist…

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