Sorrell Leczkowski
2003 – 2017
Manchester Arena, Manchester
Perpetrators
Sorrell Leczkowski, aged 14, from Leeds, West Yorkshire 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.
The Allerton High School pupil was killed and her mother Samantha and grandmother Pauline were both seriously injured.
Her mother said the 14-year-old dreamed of being an architect and “was always decorating her bedroom using her crafty yet trendy skills” after watching YouTube for ideas.
“She was clever, determined and beautiful inside and out,” she said, adding that losing Sorrell “had killed me”.
Rest in peace Sorrell. You will not be forgotten.