hereMr Wild said he decided to 'have a word with him'."I asked him what he was doing there and did he know how bad it looked, him sitting there out of sight of everybody," he said.In his statement to police, Mr Wild said: "I stood in front of him."He didn't respond at all but looked straight ahead."I felt a bit bad in myself by challenging him but I asked 'what have you got in your rucksack?'"He didn't reply.
He just looked up at me."I said 'it doesn't look very good you know what you see with bombs and such, you with a rucksack like this in a place like this, what are you doing?'."Mr Wild said Abedi told him he was waiting for someone then asked him several times what the time was.He said he told him he didn't know the time, then walked.
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