direct to your inboxJailed terrorist Hashem Abedi professed support for 'violent jihad' during a video confession from his prison cell in which he finally admitted his role in the Manchester Arena bombing, it emerged today.Abedi, 23, a Libyan heritage Islamic State fanatic from Fallowfield, helped his suicide bomber brother Salman source chemicals and prepare for the devastating May 2017 attack which left 22 dead and hundreds more seriously injured.He was in Tripoli when his sibling carried out the deadly bombing but was just as guilty.For three years, he denied he knew what his brother was doing and claimed he didn't hold extremist views although a jury convicted him at the Old Bailey in March following a trial he largely boycotted, often.
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