According to reports in this morning’s Times newspaper, the device that was detonated in the atrium at the Manchester Arena was built using home made tutorial videos.
Police originally believed that the sophisticated device had been made by a bombmaker connected with Abedi but now sources have told the paper that Salman Abedi is believed to have built bomb himself from online tutorials
A source told the newspaper that there were initially concerns that a bombmaker was on the loose but he seems to have made it himself.
‘He was a very disturbed young man. He went online and carried out a lot of research.’
According to the newspaper, similar tutorials on making bombs can still be watched on YouTube.
Police previously said they believed Abedi assembled the device by himself in the days before the attack but have said it is unclear whether he acted alone in obtaining materials for the bomb which officers believed were stored in a white Nissan Micra found parked in Rusholme.
It is believed that Abedi started building the detonator in a workshop at his family’s address in Fallowfield in south Manchester.
He is understood to have finished off the device in a second flat in North Manchester.
Two days after the Manchester attack,reports the paper, a series of bomb-making guides were found freely available on Facebook and YouTube, including step-by-step instructions on how to make a bomb using acetone peroxide, an ingredient used by Abedi. Similar videos could be seen on YouTube yesterday.
