Manchester attack: The chilling final movements of suicide bomber Salman Abedi

The final movements of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people when he detonated a bomb at Manchester Arena on Monday night, have been pieced together as sources came forward to offer details from the past weeks.

Mr Abedi, who was educated at Burnage Academy for Boys and Salford University, is thought to have recently travelled to Libya for a trip lasting several weeks.

His Libyan father, Ramadan Abedi, who lives in Tripoli, said his son Salman was there six weeks ago. Other sources reported Abedi returned just a few days before the attack to the UK, where he was lived until as recently as 2016 at his family home in Fallowfield.

According to German intelligence services, the bomber was in the German city of Dusseldorf four days before the attack, on Thursday May 18.

Mr Abedi was then seen the next day, Friday, on CCTV withdrawing £250 from an ATM before going shopping at 8pm at the Arndale centre in Manchester. His father said he spoke to him around this time and that his son sounded “normal”.

Finally, it is thought that on Monday evening at around 7pm Abedi was in a rented flat on Granby Row, near to Manchester Piccadilly station in the city centre.

According to a pub owner nearby who was asked by police for CCTV footage, it is thought the bomber was there just hours before the attack.