The family of a terrorist who killed 23 people in the Manchester Arena bombing were given almost £200,000 in state hand-outs, a trial has revealed.
The Abedi family received the money over seven years - and some of it funded the Arena attack. Samia Tabbal, the mother of Salman and Hashem Abedi, was paid housing benefit, tax credits and child benefit worth an estimated £190,000 - about £2,200 every month - right up to the time of the 2017 atrocity, even though the parents and younger children left for Libya in October 2016.
Arena bomber Salman Abedi, then doing a business management degree at Salford University, was handed a student loan worth £2,258 on January 20, 2017.
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