Facebook has blood on its hands, according to the sister of Lee Rigby, after a report found the social network failed to take action over an online chat in which one of the killers vowed to slay a soldier.

Intelligence agencies in the UK could not prevent the murder of soldier Lee Rigby despite his killers featuring in a total of seven error-filled operations before the attack, a British parliamentary watchdog has found.

One of the Islamic fanatics who murdered soldier Lee Rigby has been given permission to appeal against his sentence.

One of the two murderers of soldier Lee Rigby has launched an appeal against his whole-life prison term, the UK's Judicial Office confirmed today.

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 offered no evidence in his defence.

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.

A jury in London has heard the alleged murderers of Lee Rigby lay in wait for a serviceman to kill - and he was the solider they spotted first.

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.

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

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior police officers will be quizzed by MPs over the investigation into the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.

A task force for tackling radicalisation in the UK set up by the British Prime Minister in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby’s murder is to meet monthly in a bid to deal with extremism head on, a Downing Street spokesman has said.

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

A second man is to appear in court charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Scotland Yard said.

A second man has been charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Scotland Yard said today.

The British soldier killed by suspected Islamic extremists in London last week was run over before being attacked by two men armed with a cleaver and a knife, and had to be identified by a dental expert, an inquest heard.

As second suspect is discharged from hospital, the soldier's family plead for peace.

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

The fiancee of murdered soldier Lee Rigby said last night that she was “devastated” by his loss and has been moved by all the tributes to a “great man”.

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.

One of the men shot by police in the wake of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby has been discharged from hospital, Scotland Yard said.

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.

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.

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.