Manchester Arena bomber’s brother Hashem Abedi catches Covid in prison

THE brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has caught Covid in prison.

Hashem Abedi is thought to have Omicron and is in isolation.

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He is serving 55 years for helping to plot his brother’s 2017 suicide attack, killing 22 victims.

Abedi is in HMP Frankland, County Durham, where former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, 74, has also been struck down by the bug.

Neither man is said to need hospital treatment.

A source said last night: “Abedi tested positive and is in low spirits.”

He was jailed in August 2020.

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Taylor was convicted for war crimes in 2012 in the Hague and jailed for 50 years.

Omicron is spreading rapidly through UK jails.