#WoolwichMurder: 2nd Killer Identified as Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale

The second muslim convert who executed Lee Rigby in Woolwish has been identified as 22 year old Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, a British citizen of Nigerian descent.

Michael Adebowale and 28 year old Michael Adebolajo on Wednesday  ran the soldier down with their car before hacking him to death and cutting off his head while chanting 'Allah Akbar!’ – an Islamic phrase meaning ‘God is great’.

According to reports, a friend who has known Adebowale since he was 11-years-old says Adebowale became a Muslim in his late teens.

'He converted to Islam, preaching Islam, preaching peace. 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.'

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 radicalised while studying at university.
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Both have been been arrested on suspicion of murder and are under armed guard in two separate London hospitals with Scotland Yard waiting to interview them.

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