Manchester Bomber Had No Connection to Law-Abiding British Society, Inquiry Told

CCTV image of Salman Abedi at Victoria Station making his way to the Manchester Arena, where he detonated his bomb, in Manchester, England, on May 22, 2017. Greater Manchester Police/Handout via PA

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.