Salman Abedi had no active connection to law-abiding British society, the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena attack has heard. The close family of the Manchester-born suicide bomber showed “scant regard” to the country’s laws and he had no role model to fit into life in Britain, according to an expert in Islamist extremism. On Thursday, Matthew Wilkinson set out his report to the inquiry on Abedi’s path to radicalisation, which culminated in him committing the atrocity at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds. He concluded that three family members were the cause of Abedi’s Islamist extremist worldview—his younger brother, Hashem, jailed for life last year for aiding the bomb plot; his father, Ramadan, a suspect who remains in his native Libya; and his older brother, Ismail, who fled the UK in August. Among factors involved in his radicalisation were …
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