Two British Muslim fanatics have been found guilty of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.
Converts Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were convicted at the Old Bailey after running Fusilier Rigby down in a car and then hacking him to death with a meat cleaver and knives in front of horrified onlookers.
Fusilier Rigby’s family and friends, including his widow Rebecca, who lives in Southowram, sat through weeks of harrowing evidence on the final movements of the soldier and his killers.
They lay in wait near Woolwich Barracks in south east London on May 22 and picked the 25-year-old to kill 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.
Neither Adebolajo nor Adebowale had been able to offer any real defence for the barbaric attack during their trial, which was beset by legal delays.
The jury took little more than an hour to convict them of murder.
