(BBC) Manchester Arena bombmaker Hashem Abedi has refused to leave his cell to appear in court accused of attempting to murder three prison officers in an alleged terrorist attack.
Abedi, 28, is serving a life sentence for helping his suicide bomber brother murder 22 people in the atrocity in 2017.
Abedi was due to make his first appearance earlier at Westminster Magistrates’ Court by video link from prison.
Three of the prison officers — two men and a woman — were taken to hospital, two with stab wounds, after the attack at HMP Frankland in County Durham.
Prosecutors said they were treating the offences as having a terrorist motivation.
