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| Manchester Arena bomb plotter charged with prison guards attack | |
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| Hashem Abedi was moved to a different prison after the attack in April | |
| The brother of the man who carried out the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has been charged with attempting to murder three prison officers and assaulting a fourth. | The brother of the man who carried out the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has been charged with attempting to murder three prison officers and assaulting a fourth. |
| Hashem Abedi, who was jailed for a minimum of 55 years in 2020 for helping to plan the suicide bombing, is accused of attacking the four guards at high-security HMP Frankland on 11 April. | |
| The 28-year-old, who had been housed in a separation unit at the County Durham jail at the time, also faces a fifth charge of unauthorised possession of a knife. | |
| He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 18 September. | |
| Counter Terrorism Policing North East said the charges followed a "thorough investigation" alongside Durham Constabulary and prison authorities. | |
| Three prison officers were taken to hospital with serious injuries. | |
| Abedi was moved from HMP Frankland after the alleged attack, which was said at the time to have involved makeshift knives and cooking oil. | |
| The Ministry of Justice previously said there would be a full, independent review into the incident, which prompted criticism from survivors and the families of victims of the bombing. | |
| His older brother Salman Abedi killed 22 people and injured more than 1,000 by detonating a home-made device hidden in a rucksack as a concert by the singer Ariana Grande came to an end on 22 May 2017. |