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          Two British Muslim Converts Jailed for Murder of UK Soldier

   by Reuters

   'Two British Muslim converts were sentenced to decades in prison on
   Wednesday for hacking a soldier to death in broad daylight on a London
   street in a gruesome killing that horrified the nation and provoked an
   anti-Islamic backlash.

   'Michael Adebolajo, 29, received a whole-life term while Michael
   Adebowale, 22, was jailed for a minimum of 45 years at the Old Bailey
   court in London.

   They were sentenced in their absence after being dragged down to the
   cells after brawling with security guards in the dock as the judge
   opened his sentencing remarks.

   Both had been found guilty by a jury last December of murdering
   off-duty soldier Lee Rigby, a 25-year old Afghan war veteran in
   Woolwich, south-east London, in May last year.

   The murder, which provoked a rise in hate crimes against Muslims in
   Britain and anti-Islamic street protests, made international headlines
   as a video of Adebolajo with blood-soaked hands justifying the attack
   traveled around the world.
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