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Manchester Arena bomber's brother faces trial after flying out of UK and failing to attend public inquiry
17.06.2022 - 15:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The elder brother of Manchester Arena bomb mass murderers Salman and Hashem Abedi will face trial after he failed to comply with a legal requirement to give evidence to the public inquiry into the atrocity. Ishmale Abedi, 28, now also known as Ishmale Ben Romdhan, flew out of the UK in August last year - he was due to give evidence to the inquiry in the October.
And he was warned by a district judge sitting at Manchester magistrates' court today that he faces being convicted of a criminal offence in his absence if he doesn't attend the trial on July 14. The inquiry's legal team also revealed in a brief hearing they have a personal email address for him. They said they would use it to alert him to the hearing and serve evidence.
Nicholas de la Poer QC, attending court on behalf of the chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders, said: "To the best of the chairman's knowledge, he remains out of the jurisdiction."
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Mr Abedi was issued with a summons in May this year to attend court today - Friday - for the hearing, the district judge was told. Mr de la Poer said he was 'required' to appear before the chairman to give evidence on October 21, 2021, after a 'Section 21' notice was issued.
Section 21 of the Inquiries Act allows the chair of an inquiry to require a person to give evidence. Friday's hearing was the first under Section 35 of the Inquiries Act, which states a person is guilty of an offence if he or she fails without reasonable excuse to do anything that he or she is required to do by a notice under Section 21.
If proved, a failure to comply with a Section 21 notice carries a
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