21 Facts About Salman Abedi

On 22 May 2017 at 22:15 a member of the public reported Salman Abedi, wearing black clothes and a large rucksack to Showsec security.

Bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British Muslim of Libyan ancestry.

Salman Abedi attended Wellacre Technology College, Burnage Academy for Boys and The Manchester College.

Salman Abedi was among a group of students at his high school who accused a teacher of Islamophobia for asking them what they thought of suicide bombers.

Salman Abedi reportedly said to his friends that being a suicide bomber "was OK" and fellow college students raised concerns about his behaviour.

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Salman Abedi's father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a Salafi jihadist organisation proscribed by the United Nations, and father and son fought for the group in Libya in 2011 as part of the movement to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

Salman Abedi's parents, both born in Tripoli, remained in Libya in 2011, while 17-year-old Salman Abedi returned to live in the United Kingdom.

Salman Abedi took a gap year in 2014, when he returned with his brother Hashem to Libya to live with his parents.

Salman Abedi was injured in Ajdabiya that year while fighting for an Islamist group.

An imam at Didsbury mosque recalled that Salman Abedi looked at him "with hate" after he preached against ISIS and Ansar al-Sharia in 2015.

Salman Abedi's sister said her brother was motivated by the injustice of Muslim children dying in bombings stemming from the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War.

Salman Abedi enrolled at the University of Salford in September 2014, where he studied business administration, before dropping out to work in a bakery.

Manchester police believe Salman Abedi used student loans to finance the plot, including travel overseas to learn bomb-making.

Salman Abedi was known to British security services and police but was not regarded as a high risk, having been linked to petty crime but never flagged up for radical views.

Salman Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities for his extremism by five community leaders and family members and had been banned from a mosque; the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester said Salman Abedi was not known to the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme.

Three other men were arrested, and police initially spoke of a network supporting the bomber; they later announced that Salman Abedi had sourced all the bomb components himself, and that they now believed he had largely acted alone.

Salman Abedi's torso was propelled by the blast through the doors to the arena, possibly indicating that the explosive charge was held in the backpack and blew him forward on detonation.

Police said Salman Abedi "bought most of the Manchester bomb components himself" and that he was alone during much of the time before carrying out the Manchester bombing.

Salman Abedi had been arrested in Libya and extradited to the UK.

Salman Abedi had been summonsed by Sir John Saunders to testify before the public inquiry into the bombing.

Intelligence that MI5 had before the attack and which might have led to Salman Abedi being placed under investigation was not passed to counter-terrorism police.