Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi has refused to appear in court after being charged with attempting to murder prison officers at a maximum security jail. The 28-year-old did not appear on a scheduled videolink at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, September 18 forcing an adjournment of the case.
He is accused of three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured at HMP Frankland in County Durham on April 12. Abedi also faces one charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of unauthorised possession of a knife or offensive weapon.
Three prison officers were taken to hospital with serious injuries after they were allegedly attacked with hot oil and makeshift weapons in an ambush. Abedi is next due to appear at the same court on September 25.
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