Manchester Arena and Parsons Green terrorists accused of attack on HMP Belmarsh guard

Ahmed Hassan, left, and Hashem Abedi have been charged following the alleged attack on May 11
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The terrorists behind the Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombings have been charged with an attack on a prison guard at HMP Belmarsh.  

Hashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of causing actual bodily harm to Paul Edwards at the high security prison on May 11 last year.  

Abedi is also accused of an assault on another guard, Nick Barnett, in the same incident.  

Abedi and Hassan have been charged with the alleged attack on Mr Edwards along 22-year-old Muhammed Saeed, another convicted terror offender.  

All three men are due to appear in court in April to face the charges.  

The incident allegedly happened two months after Abedi was convicted of plotting the deadly Manchester Arena bombing which left 23 people dead and more than 800 injured.  

Ahmed Hassan was sentenced to life in March over the Parsons Green attack
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His brother, Salman Abedi, detonated a suicide bomb in the foyer of the arena in May 2017 as people streamed out of an Ariana Grande concert.  

Hashem Abedi was in Libya at the time of the attack, but was convicted of playing an instrumental part in the bombing. He is currently serving a life sentence.  

Hassan, an Iraqi asylum seeker, detonated a homemade bomb on a District Line train at Parsons Green station in September 2017.  

He was convicted of attempted murder following a 2018 trial and is also serving a life prison sentence.  

Saeed, from Manchester, has admitted possession of terrorist documents and is behind bars awaiting sentencing.  

All three men are due to appear at Bromley magistrates court on April 7, having been charged on Tuesday.  

They are all charged with causing actual bodily harm, and Abedi faces a second charge of assault on an emergency worker.  

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