The brother of the man behind the Manchester bombing and the perpetrator of an attack on a London underground station have been charged with assaulting a prison guard last May, British police said on Wednesday .
A total of three men convicted of felonies or misdemeanors of a terrorist nature were charged with the assault at Belmarsh High Security Prison in south-east London.
They will appear on April 7 in court in Bromley, south-east of the capital, Scotland Yard said in a statement.
Sentenced last August to life imprisonment
Hashem Abedi, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment last August for helping his suicide bomber brother prepare for the explosion that left 22 people dead and hundreds injured after leaving a concert in May 2017 in Manchester (north-west of England).
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He was also charged with assaulting a second prison guard at Belmarsh Prison during the same incident, which occurred on May 11, 2020, police said.
Ahmed Hassan, a 21-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, was sentenced to life in prison in 2018 for the Parsons Green bombing in September 2017, which left 51 people injured.
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The third accused is Muhammed Saeed, 22, on trial for terrorist offenses, according to the Daily Mail.