Brother of Manchester Bomber (Hashem Abedi) Is Found Guilty in Murder of 22 People. “He has blood on his hands even if he didn’t detonate the bomb,” a prosecutor said. The brother, convicted of helping plan the attack, faces life in prison.

New York Times ^ | March 17, 2020 | Iliana Magra

[karpov]

LONDON — A jury in Britain on Tuesday convicted the brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, finding him guilty on all 22 counts of murder for his role in planning and executing the attack.

The man, Hashem Abedi, was the brother of Salman Abedi, the man who detonated a vest laden with explosives, killing children, teenagers, and parents waiting to pick them up after Ms. Grande’s concert at Manchester Arena in northwestern England. More than 235 people were injured in the bombing, one of Britain’s worst recent terrorist attacks, and hundreds of others suffered psychological damage.

The jury took four and a half hours to find Hashem Abedi guilty on all of the murder charges, along with one count of attempted murder and one count of conspiracy to cause an explosion. A murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence, prosecutors said.

“Hashem Abedi encouraged and helped his brother knowing that Salman Abedi planned to commit an atrocity,” Max Hill, director of public prosecutions, said in a statement. “He has blood on his hands even if he didn’t detonate the bomb.”

Mr. Hill said he hoped Mr. Abedi’s conviction would give the victims’ families “a sense that some justice has been done.”

Mr. Abedi had pleaded not guilty to all 24 counts, but he offered no evidence or testimony during six weeks of proceedings, stopped participating in the trial and, ultimately, stopped attending.

The brothers used three addresses in Manchester to prepare for the attack, the Manchester police said: one as a delivery address for the chemicals, a second to manufacture the explosives and a third to build the final version of the bomb.

Hashem Abedi, 22, was born in Britain but is originally from Libya.

[karpov]

So nice for brothers to work together, just like Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

[Menehune56]

Hashem Abedi, 22, was born in Britain but is originally from Libya.

Not understanding this.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ll bet that there are times when Brits wish that they hadn’t fired the hangman.

[EvilCapitalist]

Personally I’m all for the man with the axe. One of my favorite scenes in a movie is in Bedknobs and Broomsticks when the Nazi Colonel turns to face the executioner with the axe.

[crz]

“stopped participating in the trial and, ultimately, stopped attending.”

How the hell does this work? Not attend?

[Paladin2]

The verdict is pure Islamophobia...

[Gay State Conservative]

Some years ago we toured the Tower Of London and the stories that the Yoeman Warders told about beheadings done there still give me the creeps,

[libertylover]

Hashem Abedi, 22, was born in Britain but is originally from Libya.

Not understanding this.

I think it's a lot like Barrack Obama was born in Kenya or Hawaii but is originally from Indonesia.

[coloradan]

Well, if life begins at conception, maybe the mom was in Libya during his conception, but then she moved to Britain prior to his birth? In which case, one could say he “was born in Britain but is originally from Libya”.

[xp38]

Modern journalism.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Personally, I’d be for rounding up every Islamic extremist in and disposing of them. With this pandemic, we no longer have the luxury of suffering these fools to exist taking up resources and persistently threatening us.

[PGalt]

Did they ever get upset with Libyan War Princess, Hillaryous Rotten “we came, we saw he died”and we got funds for the CGI Clinton? R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Wood. Can we put cankles in Ft. Hood Shooter, Malik Nidal Hasan’s cell after we execute him?

Justice in America 2020

[Pearls Before Swine]

To quote the Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland:”

Off with his head!!!

[Carriage Hill]

SPJNK.

[arthurus]

It should be an automatic short life sentence. 30 days at the most.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

crz :" “stopped participating in the trial and, ultimately, stopped attending.”
How the hell does this work? Not attend?"

Found guilty , after trial " in absentia " (latin legal term)
It means that he chose to 'not participate'.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

sinsofsolarempirefan :" With this pandemic, we no longer have the luxury of suffering these fools
to exist taking up resources and persistently threatening us."

Personally, I prefer the Israeli method of dealing with terrorism.
They arrest, and after conviction, they emigrate the entire family from the country, and blow up their domicile (generally the largest family asset) ,
and take away all their earthly possessions, except what they can carry while leaving the country.
It carries a message to the whole family, as well as those who may follow with similar terrorist behavior;
it sets a tone of finality and international disapproval.

[EvilCapitalist]

Great minds think alike. See post 4

[Pearls Before Swine]

A date with the Head-man seems appropriate for a jihadi Muslim, since beheading is so esteemed in their culture.