Hashem Abedi, the younger brother of Manchester Arena attacker Salman Abedi, is expected to be convicted of mass murder (Greater Manchester Police/PA)
The brother of the Manchester Arena attacker faces life imprisonment for mass murder.
Hashem Abedi, now 23, convicted 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 older brother, Salman, who immolated himself in the attack after an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
The defendant, who had travelled to Libya before the attack, was extradited to Britain for trial.
The jury deliberated for five hours to convict him on March 17, days before trials were stopped, with the country mired in a blockade.
The level near Manchester Arena after the terrorist attack a concert by Ariana Grande on May 22, 2017 (Peter Byrne / PA)
Hashem Abedi, who has been absent for much of his trial and has fired his legal team, now has a two-day sentence before Judge Jeremy Baker.
The families of the victims and survivors will stay in the audience via a live liaison from Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Abedi is understood to 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.
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.”
But Ms. Murray said the sentence would end.
“As families, we are doomed to — ours is for the rest of the day.
“As a mother, losing a child is life imprisonment,” she said.
Figen Murray, whose son, Martyn Hett, among 22 other people killed in the attack, said a child lost a life sentence (Family Document/PA)
During the trial, prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said Abedi was “as guilty” as the suicide bomber who killed 22 men, women and young people between the age of 8 and 51.
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 cell phones and employing a variety of passing vehicles, they did not pass their driving test, to send parts to the city.
They were also given two separate addresses for their home on Elsmore Road, Fallowfield, Manchester: one to receive the parts and the other for a pump factory.
His plans were briefly lost when his parents insisted that they register in Libya in April 2017 amid imaginable considerations about their decline in radicalization, police said, forcing the brothers to buy their reservation at a used Nissan Micra, bought for $250 a year.day before leaving the UK.
Back alone, Salman bought a backpack, plus shrapnel, built his bomb in a rented apartment in central Manchester and carried out reconnaissance missions.
Salman Abedi on which he carried out the terrorist attack of the Manchester Arena (Greater Manchester Police / PA)
Jury members were shown a terrifying CCTV of Salman walking into the sand lobby before detonating his bomb at 10:31 p.m.May 22 when the crowd left the scene.
Subsequently, Greater Manchester police discovered Hashem’s fingerprints in key directions and in the Micra, which contained lines of explosives.
He arrested him in Libya the next day and extradited him last summer.
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, none of which were used in the last 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.”