Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi's alleged hot oil attack on prison guards was motivated by terrorism, prosecutors will argue.
Abedi, 28, was yesterday charged with three counts of attempted murder after prison officers were attacked at his high security jail in April.
He was ordered to serve a record 55-year minimum term for helping his jihadist suicide bomber brother Salman murder 22 people, many of them children, at the Manchester Arena in 2017.
It has now been confirmed that prosecutors will allege that there was a 'terrorist connection' to Hashem Abedi's alleged prison assault, which according to reports at the time left one victim 'just millimetres' from death.
Families of victims of the bombings subsequently wrote to the Justice Secretary expressing their ‘absolute disbelief’ over the alleged attack and said he should be locked up in solitary confinement for life.
