TIMELINE TO AN ATROCITY

● Here are the key dates in the Manchester Arena bombing case:

● 2017

● 18 January: With his parents returning to Libya, Hashem Abedi begins ordering components for his terrorist plot, including a litre of sulphuric acid via Amazon using the details of a relative.

● 19 February: Hashem and Salman Abedi rent a flat in Somerton Court, Blackley, north Manchester, to stockpile the components of the bomb.

● 15 April: The brothers and their parents leave the UK for Libya on one-way tickets.

● 14 May: From Libya, Salman contacts the owner of apartment 39 at 61 Granby Row in Manchester city centre to rent it out on a shortterm let. It is where he will assemble his bomb.

● 18 May: Salman arrives at Manchester Airport. He later visits Manchester Arena for the first time.

● 22 May: Salman detonates his rucksack bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at 10:31pm, murdering 22 bystanders.

● 23 May: Hashem is detained by militia in Libya and allegedly tortured.

● 1 November: A formal extradition request is submitted by UK authorities.

● 2019

● 17 July: Hashem is extradited back to the UK.

● July 30: He is interviewed by police and provides a prepared statement denying involvement in the bombing and radicalisation.

● 2020

● 4 February: The Old Bailey trial is opened by prosecutor Duncan Penny QC.

● 17 March: The jury unanimously convicts Hashem of all 22 counts of murder, one count of attempted murder encompassing the remaining injured and one count of conspiring with the suicide bomber, his older brother Salman, to cause explosions.