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A convicted terrorist facilitator who was in contact with the Manchester Arena attacker in the months leading up to the attack is about to be released from prison.
Official sources have confirmed to Sky News that Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, will be released this week.
Abdallah was jailed in 2016 after being convicted of helping people travel to Syria to join the call. Islamic State group.
The official investigation on the Manchester bombing They told him that he refused to speak to lawyers for the investigation, who visited him in prison in an effort to persuade him to cooperate with the proceedings.
Abdallah will be released under strict supervision.
In September, the investigation was informed that the Manchester suicide bomber Salman abedi he had visited Abdallah in prison twice and the couple were in regular telephone contact at the time Abedi was preparing to obtain the components for his knapsack pump.
Investigation attorney Paul Greaney QC said: “We have no doubt that you are a witness with important evidence to give. We hope that upon reflection you will cooperate, so we will pressure you to present evidence prior to the investigation. .
Abdallah is not the only person who has refused to cooperate with the investigation. The attacker’s family also refused to participate in any of the proceedings.
Abdallah is paralyzed from the waist down, having been seriously injured while fighting for a rebel group trying to overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
But in the UK in subsequent years, he was still considered a dangerous radicalizer, providing money and aid to facilitate travel to Syria for those who intended to join ISIS.
Salman Abedi was in regular telephone contact with Abdallah
Abdallah will be released from prison under strict supervision, which includes the use of an electronic tag and severe restrictions on his access to electronic devices, including mobile phones and computers.
You will also face travel restrictions and will not be allowed to have contact with certain people.
Those restrictions are due to the public’s serious concerns about the supervision of a growing number of convicted terrorists, who are now being released from prison.
It follows two terrorist attacks in London, where the extremists involved had recently been released from prison and were still on leave.
In November 2019, Usman Khan stabbed to death two people at a prisoner rehabilitation conference in London bridge.
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CCTV footage of the Manchester Arena attacker
Khan had only been released from prison a year earlier and was one of the conference guests when he fatally stabbed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who had been working for Cambridge University’s Learning Together prisoner rehabilitation program.
Just three months later, the former terrorist prisoner Sudesh Amman was shot and killed by police after he launched a knife attack in Streatham, south London, just weeks after being released from prison.
A spokesman for the Justice Ministry said: “Terrorists released on leave are supervised by the Probation Service, supported by the police and security services, and are subject to strict conditions.
“If they break those conditions, they can go back to prison.”
Abdallah will be placed in specialized probation accommodation, away from the Manchester area, and will be prohibited from going anywhere near Manchester city center.
