salman abedi's brothers, ismail and hashem, were also significant influences.estigation revealed they both had large amounts of material relating to is. ismail, bbc news. can i ask you a few questions, please? ismail refused to give evidence to the inquiry or talk to the bbc and is now in libya. why won't you speak to the inquiry? hashem was jailed for life for his part in planning the arena attack. disengaged, angry, salman abedi was, according to one expert witness to the arena inquiry, ripe for radicalisation. his close family clearly...held the law in this country in pretty scant regard. it didn't really matter too much if they broke it. that was the first thing. so he had no connection to the legal side of british life, in the sense of being law—abiding, getting a law—abiding world view, as we've already mentioned, for various reasons, such as lack of parental support. he didn't engage with that massive mechanism of mainstream education. that wasn't open to him, although he did try, to be fair. he had various moments when he tried to engage. erm, and so, r