A convicted terrorist who has refused to tell an inquiry about his contact with the Manchester Arena bomber is set to be released from jail in the coming days.
Islamic State recruiter Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was sent to prison in 2016 for being at the centre of a network sending fighters to Syria and plotting to arm them with assault rifles.
The Manchester Arena inquiry, probing the May 2017 terror attack by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, has heard that Abdallah is a “witness with important evidence to give”.
But when questioned in jail this summer by inquiry lawyers he refused to answer in case he incriminated himself, the inquiry heard.
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