WATCH: Metropolitan Police’s family liaison officer, Detective Inspector Pete Sparks, delivered the Rigby family’s statement that they were satisfied with the sentences
LONDON – An al-Qaida-inspired extremist has been sentenced to life without parole for the murder of an off-duty British soldier who was hacked to death in a frenzied attack on a London street in front of horrified passers-by looked on.
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Self-described “soldier of Allah” Michael Adebolajo, 29, was sentenced Wednesday. His accomplice, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, was sentenced to a minimum of 45 years in prison.
The pair was convicted in December of murdering 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was struck by a car and then repeatedly stabbed with knives and a cleaver.
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