According to reports jurors have been shown footage of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi carrying out three reconnaissance missions at the venue before his deadly attack.
The 22-year-old and his brother Hashem had left Manchester and flown to Libya a month before the 2017 bombing after allegedly manufacturing deadly home-made TATP explosives at a 12th floor apartment in Blackley.
The Manchester-born Libyan siblings left their flat hastily at midnight and stored the explosives in an old Nissan Micra they parked up in Rusholme before flying out of the country, according to the prosecution.
Salman Abedi alone returned to Manchester Airport via Istanbul and Dusseldorf during the morning of May 18, 2017, first taking a bus to Wythenshawe and then taking a taxi back to Rusholme to check on the Micra, the court has heard.
As the trial of his brother Hashem Abedi continued at the Old Bailey in London, the jurors were shown CCTV of Salman Abedi carrying out reconnaissance at the Arena on the day he flew back into Manchester, the first of three scoping exercises before he carried out his attack.
The jury saw him walking by a long queue of people at the box office and then standing and looking at concert-goers, who were on their way to a Take That gig at the venue on the evening of May 18.
