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A conclusion of 'suicide while undertaking a terror attack that murdered 22 innocent victims and injured many others' has been formerly recorded by a coroner who conducted a documentary inquest into the death of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi.
His identity was in part confirmed by fingerprint evidence which proved a match to prints taken from him when he was arrested as a teenager in 2012 for shoplifting. There was also no evidence found that he had taken drugs or alcohol prior to the attack.
Sir John Saunders, a retired High Court judge who chaired the long-running Manchester Arena public inquiry into the 2017 atrocity, in which 22 people were killed, sat as a coroner to examine relevant evidence and determine a conclusion. A medical cause of death was given as blast injuries.
In a brief record of inquest, Sir John wrote: "The deceased died at 22:31 on 22/05/2017 in the City Room of the Manchester Arena in the Victoria Exchange Complex in Manchester. The deceased died near to the entrance doors to the Manchester Arena, when he detonated an explosive device that he had made with his brother and carried into the City Room in a backpack as part of a planned terror attack. In detonating the device the deceased murdered 22 innocent victims and injured many others."
He recorded a conclusion of 'suicide while undertaking a terror attack that murdered 22 innocent victims and injured many others'.
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Because Abedi, who was 22 and living in Fallowfield, died a violent death, Sir John ruled an inquest was necessary in law. The brief examination he
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