Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi refused to leave his jail cell to attend court to face a charge of attacking a prison guard.
Following the no-show a judge told Abedi, and his co-accused, Parsons Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan, they may be 'forced' to attend court.
Abedi, 23, and Hassan, 21, are accused alongside another suspect, Muhammed Saeed, 23, of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Paul Edwards at HMP Belmarsh on May 11 last year.
But neither Abedi nor Hassan appeared via video link from the category A HMP Frankland in County Durham for the hearing at Westminster magistrates' court on Wednesday morning.
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