Who was Salman Abedi? Manchester Arena bombing attacker who left 22 dead at Ariana Grande concert
SALMAN RAMADAN ABEDI was a suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured many others at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
Here's what you need to know about the mass murderer who carried out the attack on May 22, 2017.
Who was Manchester terror attack suicide bomber Salman Abedi?
Salman Ramadan Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve in 1994.
Abedi grew up in Britain where he attended the Burnage Academy for Boys between 2009 and 2011 and then Manchester College.
Abedi then started studying business and management at Salford University but dropped out after two years.
He was rescued from the Libyan civil war by a Royal Navy warship along with his brother Hashem and around 100 other British citizens in 2014.
Friends spoke of his wild youth in which he drank alcohol and took drugs - and his ‘Dumbo’ nickname he was given because of his big ears.
His identity was revealed after armed cops swooped on his address in Fallowfield, Manchester.
Eyewitnesses said bomb disposal officers were spotted entering the 22-year-old’s house before a controlled explosion took place.
Minutes before setting off his homemade rucksack bomb Salman phoned his nuclear scientist mum Samia and said: "Forgive me", Libyan security forces claim.
Was Salman Abedi linked to ISIS?
The Sun revealed that Abedi had secret jihadi training after slipping into Syria during a family trip to Libya.
But security forces appeared to have missed a number of chances to stop him after classmates and his own mother warned he was "dangerous".
He is believed to have regularly travelled to Tripoli in Libya to visit his family, who moved back there after the fall of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
He had spent three weeks in Libya and was reportedly in Düsseldorf - also known as a hotbed of extremists - four days before the Manchester Arena attack.
It was also claimed he visited Frankfurt in 2015 "to meet like-minded extremists".
Salman's brother Hashem was arrested in Tripoli following the attack in Manchester and the UK sought Hashem's extradition from Libya.
His extradition was delayed in April 2019 due to fighting in the north African country, but returned on 17 July, 2019.
Who claimed responsibility for the deadly attack?
The so-called Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the Manchester bomb attack.
Just hours after, ISIS jihadis celebrated the “successful and surprising” attack and claimed it was "revenge for Mosul airstrikes".
One jihadi shared a shot of injured children, saying: “It seems that bombs of the British airforce over children of Mosul and Raqqa has just came back to Manchester.”
A public inquiry found that security failures on the night of the attack led to more deaths and injury, and that Abedi should have been identified as a threat.
In March 2020, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder, one count of attempted murder encompassing the injured survivors, and conspiring with his brother to cause explosions.
Jurors heard that he was "every bit as responsible" as his older brother, Salman for the killings.
He was sentenced to at least 55 years in prison.
He later admitted helping to plot the attack in October 2020.
In February 2022, he was convicted of assault causing actual bodily harm after he ambushed a prison officer at Belmarsh prison with two other terrorist inmates on May 11, 2021.
He was also found guilty of assault by beating of an emergency worker.
He received a sentence of three years and 10 months which will be added to his 55-year minimum term.