Statement following complaints about offensive costume
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UPDATE 2 November: The man has been released on conditional police bail to allow for further enquiries to be carried out.
STATEMENT 1 November: North Yorkshire Police can confirm that a man has been arrested after the force received complaints about a man wearing an offensive costume on social media, depicting murderer, Salman Abedi who killed 22 people at Manchester Arena.
The man, who is aged in his 40s, was arrested on 1 November on suspicion of a number of offences including using a public communication network to send offensive messages.
He remains in police custody for questioning at this time.
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