Identity Of The Second Woolwich Killer Revealed

The second Muslim convert who allegedly executed Lee Rigby in Woolwich has been identified as Michael Adebowale, a probation officer's son radicalized as a teenager, it emerged today.

The 22-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent and Michael Adebolajo, 28, ran the soldier down with their car before 'hacking, chopping and cutting' at his body like 'crazed animals' screaming 'Allah Akbar!’ – an Islamic phrase meaning ‘God is great’, witnesses said.

With Rigby's body left in the street Adebolajo ranted on film: 'You people will never be safe' before  the pair waited 14 minutes for armed police to arrive and were gunned down waving firearms, knives and a machete.

Both have been been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in hospital in a stable condition with Scotland Yard waiting to interview them.

Today a friend who has known Adebowale since he was 11 says the man he saw on television holding a knife and covered in blood 'was not the same person' he grew up with.

The man, who chose to remain anonymous, said on ITV's Daybreak he remembered Adebowale converting to Islam at around 19, while he was at university.

'That wasn't the same person. He wasn't someone monstrous, that was not the same
person,' he said. 

Details about the 22-year-old are still emerging, but it is understood he and his girlfriend, a fellow convert, were well known in south-east London for handing out extremist leaflets.

Adebowale was also known to be among the 3,000 Muslim extremists in Britain being watched by MI5 and is believed to have been radicalized while studying at university.

According to his friend, who has known Adebowale since he was 11-years-old, Adebowale became a Muslim in his late teens. 'He converted to Islam, preaching Islam, preaching peace,' he said.

'Not preaching anything bad or anything negative. Just literally the ways of Islam really. 'I would see him going to mosque and coming back from mosque. He was completely normal. 'The whole reform into Islam was a sudden change though. It suited him though. 'It looked like he was doing well. He was a new person. 'He was one of us at school. Nothing evil about him at all. So yeah it was a big shock to us. A big shock.'

Source: Daily Mial