Murdered: Drummer Lee Rigby with his wife Rebecca at their wedding in 2007. Their son Jack is just two MI5 had been monitoring the two fanatics responsible for the slaughter of a young soldier near Woolwich barracks for eight years. The Security Service is facing an inquiry by MPs amid a raft of devastating revelations about the killers’ known links to Islamist extremism. One of the pair – Michael Adebolajo – was so high profile he was photographed outside Paddington Green police station six years ago behind notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary. He was even intercepted by officials as he attempted to travel to Somalia to fight alongside Islamist terrorists last year.
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MI5 had been monitoring two fanatics responsible for SE London killing
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One fanatic was photographed behind hate preacher Anjem Choudary
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Michael Adebolajo, 28, was also a member of a banned terrorist group
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He was said to have preached jihad in Woolwich just earlier this week
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Close to where married father Lee Rigby was beheaded on Wednesday
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Second suspect named last night in reports as Michael Adebowale, 22
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Sources confirmed that 28-year-old Adebolajo once served a jail sentence for violence;
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Tory minister Baroness Warsi attacked broadcasters who give airtime to ‘extremist voices – idiots and nutters’ after Choudary gave interviews on BBC TV and Channel 4 News;
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It was revealed Adebolajo was once intercepted by police as he attempted to travel to Somalia to fight alongside Al-Shabaab;
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The Conservative MP Bob Stewart demanded foreign-born preachers of hate should be ‘put on a plane out’ of Britain;
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Heavily-armed Scotland Yard officers made dawn raids at six homes across London and in Lincoln;
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A man and a woman, both aged 29, were arrested on suspicion of joining the murderous conspiracy.
Adebolajo and @placeholder mowed down Lee Rigby in this car before hacking him to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers.