'I live with mental scars everyday': Manchester Arena bombing survivor says 'it's scary' that Isis terrorists are up for RELEASE

'I live with mental scars everyday': Manchester Arena bombing survivor says 'it's scary' that Isis terrorists are up for RELEASE

Manchester Arena bombing survivor condemns release of ISIS terrorists

GB News
Gabrielle Wilde

By Gabrielle Wilde


Published: 31/01/2024

- 09:49

Updated: 31/01/2024

- 10:04

Manchester Arena bombing survivor, Jade Clough, condemns the potential release of two Isis terrorists

Manchester Arena bombing survivor, Jade Clough, has condemned the potential release of two Isis terrorists who were convicted of assisting Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who attacked Manchester Arena in 2017.

Mohammed Abdallah traveled to Syria to join the terrorist group Isis in July 2014, while his brother Abdalraouf was responsible for helping coordinate Isis recruits from their family home in Manchester.


The Manchester Arena bombing, or Manchester Arena attack, was an Islamic terrorist suicide bombing of the Manchester Arena following a concert by pop star Ariana Grande.

Clough spoke to Patrick Christys on GB News and described the incident that 'left her with mental scars.'

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She said: "I bought my nephew tickets for his birthday, so we'd planned on obviously having an amazing night. It was his first-ever concert. He had only just turned 17 and was a massive Ariana Grande fan.

"We had a really good night up until the end. We left the concert straight after she finished singing her last song, which was Dangerous Woman and went downstairs and onto the concourse.


"As we walked through the foyer doors we were a little bit confused as to where to go because I'd never come out of that exit before.

"As we walked, we decided to turn around and then all of a sudden the room just went bright orange and then white. There was a massive deafening bang, it rumbled through your whole body and we were just thrown from God knows where, where we stood. We landed somewhere completely different.

Patrick Christys and Jade Clough

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"You couldn't hear anything, you couldn't see anything. You could just see smoke around you, you could just hear a ringing. I was hit in the leg and it felt like a really hard punch, but then when I tried to stand up and walk on it, I couldn't, my leg was just a mess.

"Following the night you've got a long recovery and I don't think that you'll ever recover from something like that. Not fully, not emotionally. Physically, you can recover, but you have to live with the physical and the mental scars every day."

When asked how she felt about the release of the two ISIS terrorists, she explained: "It's terrifying. It's scary. You don't know what goes on in the country with relation to how many people are on watch lists and stuff like that.

"But to know that this person has had a direct link to the attack that has affected me and countless others throughout Manchester and the world, they could be released and potentially walking around the streets, it's scary."

Patrick Christys and Jade Clough

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"I don't know whether I think that people who are maybe that far gone can be rehabilitated.

"I'm not sure. But I think the problem with it is that you probably won't know. You just don't know. There's always that level of uncertainty in there.

"I don't think by any means that people can't be rehabilitated because I believe that people can.

"They might be too far gone."

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