The mother of a Bury support worker who died in the Manchester Arena terror attack has slammed 'coward' Hashem Abedi for failing to appear in court when he was convicted of helping his suicide bomber brother carry out mass murder.
A jury took less then four hours to convict Abedi of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder concerning those who were injured but survived the blast and conspiring with his brother Salman to cause an explosion following a seven week trial at the Old Bailey in London.
Hashem Abedi, from Fallowfield, was 2,000 miles away in Libya when his brother detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) packed with shrapnel in his backpack as concert-goers were leaving an Ariana Grande gig at the Arena on May 22, 2017, killing
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