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LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 03:46 PM Dec 2013

Two guilty of Lee Rigby murder

Two men have been found guilty of murdering soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks in south-east London in May.

Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, struck Fusilier Rigby with a car before hacking him to death.

Adebolajo had claimed he was a "soldier of Allah" and the killing was an act of war.

The men were found not guilty of attempting to murder a police officer at the scene....


(More at link):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25450555

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