One of the Muslim fanatics who murdered soldier Lee Rigby has been sentenced to die behind bars and the other jailed for at least 45 years for the horrifying killing.

The mother of one of the Muslim extremists who butchered Fusilier Lee Rigby has asked the soldier’s family to forgive her son.

Questions remain over why police and intelligence agencies did not monitor the Muslim fanatics who beheaded a young soldier more closely, and an inquiry is being carried out by MPs on the Intelligence and Security Committee into how much they knew and whether the killers could have been stopped.

Two British men have today been found guilty of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.

One of the men accused of murdering Lee Rigby has told a jury he loves al-Qaida and does not regret what happened to the soldier.

One of the alleged murderers of British Fusilier Lee Rigby told detectives the soldier was struck in the neck until his head “almost detached”, a court in London has heard.

An armed police officer thought one of Lee Rigby’s alleged murderers was going to kill her as he ran towards marksmen waving his hands in a chopping motion, a jury has heard.

A first aider who rushed to help murdered soldier Lee Rigby heard one of his alleged killers talking about “religion and Afghanistan”, a court has heard.

Video footage of soldier Lee Rigby being mown down by a car and his alleged murderers dragging his body into the middle of the road has been shown to a jury.

Soldier Lee Rigby was the victim of “a cowardly and callous murder” by two men who wanted witnesses to see “the consequence of their barbarous acts”, a jury in England has heard.

Two men accused of murdering a British soldier in London earlier this year have pleaded not guilty.

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Five members of prison staff have been suspended after Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo lost two teeth when he was restrained in jail.

A man accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby appeared in court for the first time today.

Suspected Woolwich attacker Michael Adebolajo has been discharged from hospital and taken into police custody, Scotland Yard said.

A man will appear in a British court this morning charged with the murder of soldier Lee Rigby, Scotland Yard has said.

Police investigating the “shocking and horrific” murder of Drummer Lee Rigby issued a new appeal for information today as they confirmed the soldier died from multiple stab wounds.

A 21-year-old arrested in connection with the murder of soldier Lee Rigby has denied any involvement in the “atrocity”.

Police will today question one of the men suspected of murdering Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, a week after the soldier’s death.

The family of one of the men suspected of murdering a soldier in Woolwich today expressed “profound shame and distress” over the death, as a second accused killer was discharged from hospital after being shot by police.

Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two Islamists made another arrest last night, as 1,000 far-right protesters demonstrated near Prime Minister David Cameron’s office.

Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested by Kenyan authorities three years ago because they feared he was attempting to join an al Qaida-linked militant group, the country’s anti-terrorism police have said.

French anti-terrorism investigators were last night hunting for an attacker who stabbed a soldier in Paris, as authorities continued to search for links with the brutal killing of British serviceman Lee Rigby.

Theresa May warned today there are potentially thousands of people at risk of being radicalised in the UK as she indicated plans for a fresh crackdown on extremists groups.

The British parliament is to investigate if security services could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers.

British police arrested two more people yesterday in a hunt for accomplices of two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries.