One of terrorists caught on camera with bloodied hands holding a meat cleaver he had used to hack a British Army soldier to death on streets of london has been named as Michael Adebolajo.
He has a distinct london accent and is believed to be a British citizen of Nigerian descent who, along with the second suspect shot by police after yesterday’s attack in Woolwich, south-east london, is believed to have converted to a radical form of Islam around 10 years ago.
His identity has not been formally released, but emerged on internet forums and Twitter hours after the soldier was butchered on the busy london street near Woolwich army barracks and his name is now being quoted by BBC and Sky News sources. Both suspects are being treated in separate hospitals while under arrest and their condition is said to be serious. Adebolajo was reportedly known to Al Muhajiroun, a radical and banned Islamist organisation in the UK, and went by the name of Mujahid.
Video footage filmed by an onlooker and broadcast by Britain’s ITV news channel showed Adebolajo with hands covered in blood and holding a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife.