British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were found guilty of running the 25-year-old soldier down in a car and hacking him to death with a meat cleaver and knives in broad daylight in front of horrified onlookers on May 22 near Woolwich Barracks.
They lay in wait near the south-east London barracks and picked Fusilier Rigby after assuming he was a soldier because he was wearing a Help for Heroes hooded top and carrying a camouflage rucksack.
Within just three minutes of hitting him at 30-40mph in their Vauxhall Tigra, they had butchered the young father and were dragging his body into the middle of the road.
But the pair were found not guilty of the attempted murder of a police officer in the aftermath of Fusilier Rigby’s death.
Adebolajo admitted killing the soldier, but denied murder on the grounds he was a ‘soldier of Allah’ and that Fusilier Rigby was a legitimate target.
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