Arena bomber’s family ‘claimed benefits for years’

The Manchester Arena bomber’s mother was claiming housing benefit for the family in the years leading up to the atrocity, the Old Bailey heard. Hashem Abedi, 22, allegedly encouraged older brother Salman to kill 22 and maimed hundreds more when he detonated his rucksack bomb at the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. But Hashem insists if he knew of the murderous plan he would have told his mother about it. Their mother Samia Tabbal was in receipt of…