MICHAEL Adebolajo has been branded Britain's most dangerous prisoner after his heinous crime alongside Michael Adebowale.
He is serving life in prison for the crime against British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby.
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Who is Michael Adebolajo?
Michael Adebolajo was born to a Christian family of Nigerian descent in Lambeth, London, where he attended Marshalls Park School before going on to the University of Greenwich.
The murderer converted to Islam in 2003, according to jailed hate preacher Anjem Choudary, and was linked to the banned organisation al-Muhajiroun.
Three years later he was arrested outside the Old Bailey during a protest over the trial of Islamic activist Mizanur Rahman.
In 2009, Adebolajo spoke at a protest against the English Defence League and a year later was arrested in Kenya on suspicion of trying to train with the Al-Shabaab terror group.
Three years after his failed bid to train with al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Africa, he would butcher a British soldier on the streets of his hometown.
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Michael Adebowale (born 1991) was a member of al-Muhajiroun who, alongside Michael Adebolajo, was responsible for the murder of British Army fusilier Lee Rigby on 22 May 2013.
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Michael Adebowale was born in 1991 to a family of ProtestantNigerians in the United Kingdom, but he later converted to Islam. He attended the University of Greenwich with fellow Nigerian Michael Adebolajo, a fellow Muslim convert. The two of them joined al-Muhajiroun, an extremist group, and on 22 May 2013 they ran fusilier Lee Rigby down in Woolwich, London with a car before using knives and a cleaver to kill him. The police wounded both men as they charged them with their weapons, and both of them were imprisoned; he was charged with the murder of Rigby and possession of a firearm.
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Lee Rigby murder: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale found guilty
Two men have been convicted of murdering a soldier in broad daylight near a military barracks in London, in the first al-Qaida-inspired attack to claim a life on British soil since 7 July 2005.
Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, murdered Lee Rigby, 25, as he returned to the Woolwich barracks in south London, in May.
They were convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey in central London, which heard that the soldier was almost beheaded in the attack.
The jury took just over 90 minutes to reach its verdicts. Both men were found not guilty of the attempted murder of a police officer. Relatives of Rigby cried as the verdicts were given.
Rigby's stepfather, Ian, wiped away tears and put his arm around the soldier's mother, Lyn, who was sobbing.
Mr Justice Sweeney, who ordered that the decisions be heard in silence, said he would pass sentence after a key appeal court ruling on the use of whole life terms in January.
Adebolajo looked at the press and kissed his Qur'an as he was taken to the cou