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Lee Rigby attack

Lee Rigby attack
On May 22, 2013, 25-year-old Afghan war veteran, Drummer Lee Rigby, was hacked to death in broad daylight in a busy street in Woolwich, southeast London. Police arrested two men, one of whom was a British-born convert to Islam who at the scene claimed he had acted in revenge for British wars in Muslim countries.
last updated:
9 September, 2024

London bombings remembered on 10th anniversary

Suspected nail bomb attack on British mosque on day of Lee Rigby funeral

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Second man charged with London soldier murder

Woolwich attack suspect Adebowale charged over soldier’s killing

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A forensics officer removes items from a flat where Michael Adebowale is registered as living. Photo: AP

Family of suspect in British soldier's killing condemns his crime

The family of a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death on a London street condemned the attack as senseless, distancing itself from the murder which has provoked an anti-Muslim backlash.

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DNA on juice bottle leads police to French soldier's suspected attacker

Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance video of a man praying in a mall have led to the arrest of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area just outside Paris.

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Police arrest ‘radical’ Muslim over French soldier’s stabbing

Police investigating the stabbing of a French soldier in Paris on Wednesday arrested a suspect sources described as a supporter of “radical Islam”.

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An image taken from surveillance cameras shows a man suspected of having carried out a terror-related knife attack on a French soldier at the La Defense commercial centre in Paris. Photo: Reuters

British mosque petrol-bombed in most serious attack since Lee Rigby killed

The chairman of an English mosque targeted by multiple petrol bombs has described the attack as attempted murder. The incident in Grimsby, in the eastern county of Lincolnshire, was the most serious attack on Muslims since the gruesome killing on a London street of British soldier Lee Rigby by two self-described Islamist extremists.

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Inmates reportedly inspired by soldier's killing attack UK prison guards

Two prison officers have been injured in an attack at a British maximum security jail, officials said yesterday, with media reports claiming the assailants were Muslim inmates inspired by the brutal murder of a soldier.

London police make 10th arrest in Woolwich attack

A supporter of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) gestures near Downing Street during a protest. Photo: AFP

Soldier's killing revives far-right group's anti-Islam campaign

For a movement that was on the verge of implosion less than a month ago, the English Defence League (EDL) has staged a major show of force in central London, signalling that the death of Drummer Lee Rigby has breathed new life into the far-right protest group.

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Supporters of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) shout slogans near Downing Street in central London. Photo: AFP

Move to prevent radicalisation of British Muslims

A battery of measures to prevent radicalisation of British Muslims was outlined by the home affairs minister, Theresa May. They included tougher pre-emptive censorship of internet sites, a lower threshold for banning extremist groups and renewed pressure on universities and mosques to reject so-called hate preachers.

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Suspect in London stabbing arrested in Kenya in 2010

In 2010, Michael Adebolajo was arrested with five others near Kenya’s border with Somalia, Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit chief Boniface Mwaniki said. Police believed Adebolajo was going to work with Somali militant group al-Shabab.

Three new arrests in Woolwich murder probe

Two men aged 28 an 24 were arrested at a home in southeast London, with police firing a Taser electric stun gun on the older suspect, and on a 21-year-old man they arrested in a street around 1.5 kilometres from the murder scene.

Floral tributes at the scene where Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed outside Woolwich Barracks in London. Photo: AFP

Stabbings spark anti-terror inquiry in France, three more arrests in Britain

French President Francois Hollande said the stabbing could not be linked to the London murder "at this stage", although Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the "sudden violence of the attack" was similar. The assault on Cordier three days after Afghanistan veteran drummer Lee Rigby was hacked to death on a London street in an Islamist attack will raise fears of a spiral of brazen violence against Western soldiers on their home soil.

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Police officers stand near the cordoned-off spot where a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in the busy commercial district of La Defense, just outside Paris. Photo: AP
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British man arrested under terror laws after TV interview about soldier's slaying

Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under armed guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of murdering 25-year-old Lee Rigby, a veteran of the Afghan war.

Murder of British soldier brings fear of backlash at Muslims

Fears of a backlash against Muslims in Britain have intensified after dozens of Islamophobic incidents were reported in the wake of the grotesque murder of soldier Lee Rigby. The Tell Mama hotline for recording Islamophobic crimes detailed 38 incidents overnight on Wednesday, including attacks on three mosques. More were reported on Thursday.

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Britain braced for copycat terror attacks after soldier's killing

Britain is bracing not just for clashes with right-wing extremists but for possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier on Wednesday. London's Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain's police officers are armed.

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Floral tributes for Drummer Lee Rigby at the scene of his killing in Woolwich. Photo: Reuters

Exiled Islamist praises 'brave' killing of soldier in London

A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target.

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British spy services under pressure over London soldier’s murder

Britain’s intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in the streets of London slip through their net.

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British police investigate conspiracy after London soldier's murder

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Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Photo: Reuters

How terror struck out of nowhere

A meat cleaver is clasped in his blood-smeared left hand, the other - stained red with human blood too - waves manically as he shouts at the camera, ranting his justification for the atrocity on the streets of southeast London.

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"We will never stop fighting you," one of the attackers says, as his victim lies on the road

Britain names soldier killed in London attack

Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday.

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Woman confronted London attackers: ‘Right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose'

A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because “it was better having them [the weapons] aimed on one person”.

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