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Brother of Manchester Ariana Grande concert bomber jailed for at least 55 years
- Hashem Abedi was found guilty of murder in March for helping his brother Salman carry out the 2017 suicide attack that left 22 people dead
- The brothers were born to Libyan parents who emigrated to Britain during the rule of late leader Muammar Gaddafi
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A man who helped his elder brother carry out a suicide bomb attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester three years ago which killed 22 people was jailed for at least 55 years on Thursday.
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Hashem Abedi, 23, was found guilty in March of murder for encouraging and helping his brother Salman to blow himself up at the Manchester Arena as parents arrived to collect their children at the end of a May 2017 show by the US pop singer.
Among the dead were seven children, the youngest aged just eight, while 237 people were injured. The attack was the deadliest in Britain since the 2005 London transport suicide bombings which killed 52 people.
Judge Jeremy Baker said the men were equally culpable and had deliberately targeted a concert attended by young people, with almost half those killed children or teenagers.
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“The stark reality is that these were atrocious crimes: large in their scale, deadly in their intent and appalling in their consequences,” Baker told London’s Old Bailey court.
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