We advise SISTEMA users always to use the latest version. With each successive version, bugs are eliminated and the functionality and usability of the program improved. There is a third piece of evidence that is consistent with my conclusion that help was given to SA in Libya. The bomb that SA constructed in May 2017 contained a Sistema 45910 switch. This was recovered by Operation Manteline officers from the City Room. It was manufactured in early March 2016 in Romania. Once manufactured, it was sold on to wholesalers in Italy, Tunisia and Denmark. The Tunisian wholesaler supplied Libya. 156 The acquisition of the switch shortly before returning to the UK on 18 th May 2017 would be consistent with SA receiving technical advice in Libya during the period between 15 th April 2017 and 18 th May 2017. In my view, there is a material possibility that this switch was acquired in Libya by SA between 15 th April 2017 and 18 th May 2017. I cannot conclude that this is more likely than not, but it is the most likely of a number of possibilities. The process of constructing the bomb was a complex one. It involved SA altering the TATP from a relatively safe state to one that was highly unstable. It involved integrating that now unstable explosive into a device that SA was able to detonate. Again, for obvious reasons, I am not going to detail those stages, but I am satisfied that this was not something SA would have been able to do based on a recollection of a video or even following along while he viewed it.

But he said two, John Atkinson, 28, and the youngest victim, Saffie-Rose Roussos, did have a chance. Some family members of Manchester Arena bombing victims appeared emotional as the inquiry chairman concluded his statement. At 01:58 on 23 rd May 2017, a Halifax bank card bearing SA’s name was discovered in the City Room by the Operation Manteline Bomb Scene Manager, Robert Gallagher. It was logged on a GMP system at 02:20. 133

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The Sistema 45910 switch, later recovered by police from the scene at Manchester Arena, was manufactured in early March 2016 in Romania and then sold to wholesalers in Italy, Tunisia and Denmark. The Tunisian wholesaler supplied Libya, where Abedi was based, the report revealed. SISTEMA version 1.1.7. was withdrawn, see SISTEMA newsletter 02-2015 (PDF, 39 kB, nicht barrierefrei) as of 01.04.2015

It is likely that the “she” who is said by Ramadan Abedi to have returned SA’s passport was Samia Tabbal, SA’s mother. Criminal investigation Identification of SA and HA Investigators believe Salman and Hashem watched an IS video posted online in 2016, in which a balaclava-clad instructor explained how to make an explosive called triacetone triperoxide. This cannot be definitively proven: data from just two of the 14 electronic devices the brothers were known to have used was ever recovered. Abedi, an IT worker, left his flat in Manchester and is now thought to be with his parents and three youngest siblings in Libya.

Criminal trial of HA

But it is now very clear that there was a failure to properly assess key intelligence about Salman Abedi; a failure to put it into proper context, and – most catastrophic of all – a delay in acting on it. This image was another potential indicator of extremism that, if looked at cumulatively with the other indicators I have identified, should have justified a referral to Prevent,” ruled Saunders. He found: "It is more likely than not that there were others who were involved in plotting a bomb." There is no direct evidence of where the additional training that I consider SA and HA must have had came from. Nor is there any direct evidence of when this training was received or whether it was in the UK or abroad. SA spent the summer of 2016 in Libya, returning on 8 th October 2016. The first evidence of the collection of items for use in the bomb came just a few months later, shortly after the bomb‑making video became available on the internet in November 2016.