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Jonny Humphries
BBC News, Manchester
Greater Manchester Police
Hashem Abedi was moved to a different prison after the attack in April
The brother of the man who carried out the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has been charged with attempting to murder three prison officers and assaulting a fourth.
Hashem Abedi, who was jailed for a minimum of 55 years in 2020 for helping his brother to plan the suicide bombing, is accused of attacking the four guards at the high-security HMP Frankland in County Durham on 11 April.
The 28-year-old, who had been housed in a separation unit at the jail at the time of the attack, also faces a charge of unauthorised possession of a knife in prison.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 18 September.
Abedi had been moved from HMP Frankland after the alleged attack, which was said at the time to have involved makeshift knives and cooking oil.
