Megan Hurley

Megan Hurley, aged 15, from Liverpool, Merseyside 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. 

Megan Hurley had been given a ticket to the concert as a birthday surprise and had been at the show with her elder brother Bradley.

He said they had had a strong bond and the same “pop culture obsession”. 

“Music became a running theme in our lives and it was something we loved just as much as we loved each other,” he said, adding that he did not “cry or get sad when I remember her. I smile”.

Her parents Michael and Joanne said she had been growing into a “beautiful young lady, living her life to the fullest”, adding: “You will forever be our beautiful beauty queen.

Rest in peace Megan. You will not be forgotten.