The jury in the trial of Manchester Arena bombing accused Hashem Abedi has retired to consider verdicts after almost six weeks of evidence.
He denies assisting and encouraging his brother Salman, who killed himself and 22 others when he detonated a bomb in his backpack at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017.
He is accused of helping his sibling source shrapnel and chemicals to make deadly TATP explosive. The brothers flew out of Manchester to Libya the month before the atrocity but Salman Abedi returned alone to carry out the bombing, killing himself and 22 others as well as seriously injuring 92 more.
As Hashem Abedi's trial resumed at the Old Bailey in London, the judge discharged one of the 12 jurors who self-isolated over the weekend with
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