Jane Tweddle

Jane Tweddle, aged 51, from Blackpool, Lancashire was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.

On 22 May 2017, at approximately 10:31 p.m., Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British-Libyan man born in Manchester to Libyan parents, carried out a suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena in England at the end of an Ariana Grande concert. 

Abedi, a UK citizen who had recently returned from Libya, detonated a TATP-based nail bomb packed with shrapnel in the City Room foyer, killing 22 people (including children) and injuring 1,017 others (239 with physical injuries). 

His younger brother, Hashem Abedi (also British-Libyan), helped source materials and coordinate the attack from Libya; he was later convicted in the UK of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to cause an explosion, receiving a life sentence with a minimum term of 55 years. 

Jane Tweddle, who was originally from Hartlepool in County Durham, had gone to the arena with a friend to pick up the friend’s daughter.

Her daughters Harriet, Isabelle and Lily said she had been “our warrior mum” who had taught them “to be kind and to always stick together”.

They said she “always knew how to brighten someone’s day and make them feel loved” and “treated everyone with kindness, decency and respect”.

As the “perfect listener”, she had been made for her job as a school receptionist, they added, and had been “cherished and trusted by the young lives you touched”.

Rest in peace Jane. You will not be forgotten.