Manchester Arena bomber linked to six MI5 'subjects of interest', inquiry hears

Salman Abedi also visited a terrorist in jail twice and regularly travelled to Libya, the inquiry was told

The Manchester Arena suicide bomber was identified associating with six separate MI5 subjects of interest", visited a terrorist twice in jails and regularly travelled to war-torn Libya, a public inquiry heard.

Intelligence on Salman Abedi came in to MI5 for six years and right up to the months before he blew himself up with a homemade bomb packed with shrapnel, murdering 22 bystanders and injuring hundreds more in the foyer of the arena at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.