Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi s elder brother will be arrested if he comes back to UK

• Ismail Abedi, 28, ordered to attend the public inquiry into May 2017 terror attack
• He flew to Istanbul from Manchester Airport in August and has not returned
• Families of 22 people killed in explosion labelled him ‘coward’ for refusing to attend in October and give account of how Salman Abedi, 22, was radicalised

Published: 16:06 GMT, 26 November 2021 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 26 November 2021

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The elder brother of Salman Abedi will be arrested and brought to the Manchester Arena Inquiry to give evidence if he comes back to the UK, a judge has ruled.

Ismail Abedi, 28, had been ordered to attend the public inquiry into the May 2017 terror attack but boarded a flight to Istanbul from Manchester Airport at the end of August and has not returned.

Bereaved families of the 22 people killed in the explosion labelled him a ‘coward’ for refusing to attend in October and give an account as to how Salman Abedi, 22, had become radicalised.

They said they were ‘shocked’ how he was allowed to leave a day after he missed a flight when he was stopped and questioned by police and told them he was going on a three-week break.

The elder brother of Salman Abedi will be arrested and brought to the Manchester Arena Inquiry to give evidence if he comes back to the UK, a judge has ruled. Ismail Abedi (above), 28, had been ordered to attend the public inquiry into the May 2017 terror attack but boarded a flight to Istanbul from Manchester Airport at the end of August and has not returned

Bereaved families of the 22 people killed in the explosion labelled Ismail a ‘coward’ for refusing to attend in October and give an account as to how Salman Abedi (pictured), 22, had become radicalised

Paul Greaney QC, said the inquiry wants to know if Salman and another Abedi brother, Hashem, had received military training in Libya after photographs of the pair holding weapons were found on Ismail’s phone. (Above, Ismail posing with a rocket launcher)

On Friday, Mr Justice Sweeney sitting at Manchester Civil Justice Centre granted an application from inquiry chair Sir John Saunders to issue a bench warrant against Abedi.

Paul Greaney QC, for the applicant, argued Abedi had ‘important’ evidence to give on his younger brother’s path to extremism.

He said the inquiry heard this week that their father, Ramadan Abedi, was associated with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group — a militia that had links with terror organisation al-Qaeda.

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