Fusilier Rigby, 25, left, was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and
murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22, bottom right, and Michael Adebolajo,
29, top right, who ambushed him outside his barracks in Woolwich, South
East London on May 22 last year. Rebecca Rigby, inset, said in her
victim impact statement: 'My son (Jack) will grow up and see images of
his father that no son should have to endure'.
She spoke out after her
husband's family arrived at the Old Bailey wearing matching t-shirts
(centre left to right, step-father Ian Rigby, mother Lyn Rigby and
sisters Sara McClure and Chelsea Rigby). In December the two fanatics
were found guilty of butchering the father-of-one but their sentencing
was delayed until today after Strasbourg judges tried to end whole-life
tariffs. But last week senior British judges defied the European Court
of Human Rights. Today Adebolajo's QC told the court that sentencing his
client to life without parole would make him a 'martyr', while
Adebowale's legal team said a whole-life term would be 'inhuman' for a
man so young. They will be sentenced after 4.30pm.
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