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How the Manchester Arena bomber and his family raked in a fortune in benefits

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The Abedi family was given almost £200,000 in state hand-outs in seven years - and some of it funded the Arena attack, the trial revealed.

Samia Tabbal, the mother of Salman and Hashem Abedi, was paid housing benefit, tax credits and child benefit worth an estimated £190,000 - about £2,200 every month - right up to the time of the 2017 atrocity, even though the parents and younger children left for Libya in October 2016.

Arena bomber Salman Abedi, then doing a business management degree at Salford University, was handed a student loan worth £2,258 on January 20, 2017.

It was around this time he and his brother started plotting a terror strike. The Arena trial heard how mother Samia’s bank account was used to pay for bomb-making kit as well

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