British Police have requested that the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber be extradited from Libya in order to arrest him in relation to the murder of the 22 victims killed in the atrocity.

Greater Manchester Police have now been granted an arrest warrant for Hashem Abedi, the brother of terrorist Salman Abedi, who detonated a suicide bomb during an Ariana Grande concert in May.

Both brothers had travelled to Libya in April, with Salman returning alone to Britain before carrying out the attack a month later.

However, police stated in the aftermath of the bombing that Hashem was being treated as a suspect in relation to the preparation and planning of the attack.

The Abedi family, originally from Libya, had fled to the UK during the Gaddafi dictatorship, but the brothers returned to the country along with their father, who volunteered to fight with opposition forces when the uprising began in 2011.

Hashem, who is the youngest brother, is now believed to be in custody after being captured by a Libyan militia group.