(BBC) The Manchester Arena bomb-maker Hashem Abedi used five makeshift knives to conduct a terrorist attack on prison officers while shouting “Allahu akbar,” prosecutors have alleged.
Abedi, 28, is serving life in prison for helping his suicide bomber brother murder 22 people in the Manchester Arena atrocity in 2017.
He has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, one of assault causing actual bodily harm, and one of possessing a knife over the alleged attack at the maximum-security HMP Frankland in County Durham on 12 April.
Abedi earlier appeared in Woolwich Crown Court via video link from HMP Belmarsh flanked by five prison officers dressed in riot masks and protective body armour.
