Hashem Abedi

Hashem Abedi conspired to murder 22 people, at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on 22 May 2017. The youngest of his victims was eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos; nine of his victims were still teenagers. Sourcing chemicals and building prototype bombs with his brother Salman, Salman detonated a suicide bomb in an Islamic terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena which killed 22 and injured over 1,000. The brothers were born in England to Libyan immigrants. In 2020 Abedi was convicted and sentenced to a minimum of 55 years imprisonment.

In custody in 2020 Abedi and two other terrorists attacked a prison officer, adding three years and ten months to his sentence; in April 2025 he threw hot cooking oil and stabbed three officers with homemade blades.