A man has been charged with assisting the Manchester synagogue attacker Jihad al-Shamie with earlier reconnaissance on a UK defence facility.

Mohammad Bashir, 31, was charged with four terrorism offences, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

Bashir, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, who was arrested at Manchester airport on 27 November, was charged with one count of preparation for acts of terror and three counts of dissemination of terrorist publications.

Frank Ferguson, the chief crown prosecutor of the CPS’s special crime and counter-terrorism division, said: “Today, we have decided to prosecute Mohammad Bashir with terrorism offences – following a Counter Terrorism Policing North West investigation into his conduct linked to Jihad al-Shamie.

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