Manchester Arena mass murderer Hashem Abedi has refused to go through his role in the bombing.
The 23-year-old, the youngest brother of local suicide bomber Salman Abedi, was absent from Old Bailey courtroom number two on Wednesday after fleeing the trial midway, he was in the building.
Relatives of some of the other 22 people killed in the atrocity were informed when Judge Jeremy Baker reported on Hashem’s refusal, born in Manchester, to attend.
Other relatives of victims and survivors are watching the audience live from Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Addressing the court at the beginning of a two-day hearing, the opinion delivered said: “In this case, I have asked Hashem Abedi to appear before the Central Criminal Court.
“I who had been brought into this building, Hashem Abedi refused to enter the courtroom.
“This is a matter for HM’s Probation Service that for me.You can’t use force.”
Hashem was convicted through a jury in March of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause a life-threatening explosion.
The Old Bailey learned that the Islamic State-inspired jihadist helped his brother Salman order, gather and buy fabrics for the fatal plot, before it exploded when thousands of men, women and young people left an Ariana Grande concert on May night.22, 2017.
The defendant, who had travelled to Libya the month before the attack, was arrested hours after the attack and extradited to Britain last summer.
First, Hashem told police that he then sought to cooperate with them to prove his innocence.
But he missed much of his judgment and fired his team.
This meant that grieving families and survivors were left without hearing the guy the police actually orchestrated the plot.
The opinion delivered showed that Hashem cannot be sentenced to life in prison because he was under the age of 21 at the time of the offences.
However, he may be sentenced to several life sentences with a minimum sentence of 30 years.
During the trial, prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said Hashem “is as guilty” as the suicide bomber who killed 22 men, women and young people between the age of 8 and 51.
Beginning in January 2017, the brothers began buying lock nuts and screws for shrapnel and ordering chemicals from Amazon to make homemade TATP explosives, with the unintentional help of friends and family.
They hid their activities by converting their cell phones and a variety of passing vehicles, even if they hadn’t passed a driving test, to send spare parts around town.
They were also given two separate addresses from their home on Elsmore Road, Fallowfield, Manchester: one to receive the parts and the other for a bomb factory.
His plans were briefly thwarted when his parents insisted that they register in Libya in April 2017 amid imaginable considerations about their descent into radicalization, police said, forcing the brothers to buy their hiding place in a Nissan.Used micron, bought for £250 a day, before leaving the UK.
Back alone, Salman bought a backpack and more shrapnel, built his bomb in a rented apartment in central Manchester and carried out reconnaissance missions.
Jurors were shown terrifying CCTV footage of Salman, 22, in the arena lobby before detonating his bomb at 10:31 p.m. as the crowd left the scene.
Later, Greater Manchester police discovered Hashem’s fingerprints in key directions and in the Micra, which contained lines of explosives.
A small can of Consumer’s Pride vegetable oil from the bomb site coincided with discarded portions containing Traces of Hashem that were discovered elsewhere.
Hashem had accumulated the boxes in a takeaway store where he worked and manufactured prototype components, even though they were not used in the ultimate device.
Penny said Hashem was “a driver, a quartermaster, an electrical technician” in the plot.
After his arrest, Hashem had tried to “point the finger at the duty” of his deceased brother, but Penny simply said it “an attempt to escape duty because of his own fault, for the ruthless and cowardly carnage that took place at night — wounded sand.”
Speaking before the conviction, Figen Murray, whose 29-year-old son Martyn Hett was among the victims, said: “I accept as true the British legal system.
“Everything the opinion provides to this user will be just a punishment for a crime he committed.”
A public investigation into the attack is expected to begin next month.