Arrested trio’s ‘hate threats’

THREE of the men arrested after the Manchester bombing were previously reported to police after telling a mosque elder he ‘deserved to be killed’ for preaching against IS.

The trio are said to have made the remarks to Mohammed Saeed at the Didsbury Mosque in Manchester. It followed a sermon given by Mr Saeed in which he warned of the perils of joining the death cult.

A source at the mosque, which was founded in the 1960s in a converted church, said police were informed about the trio’s remarks – although not Abedi’s reaction – but took no action.