11:14AM GMT 29 Nov 2013

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Before impact: This frame, taken from CCTV footage, shows a Vauxhall Tigra just about to crash into Lee Rigby as he crosses the road

Rant: Michael Adebolajo, one of the men accused of killing Fusilier Rigby, is shown shortly after the murder, hands covered in blood, swearing that ‘we will never stop fighting you’

Empty street: The clip begins showing the the scene in Artllery Place, Woolwich, London, with Lee Rigby visible to the right

But Mr Whittam said: ‘To seek out and kill political opponents on the grounds that you say that they have oppressed your countrymen or people of your religion is still murder.’

The court heard that children returning to nearby Mulgrave Primary School after a visit to the library were sent back by terrified bystanders.

CCTV cameras showed teachers and pupils unwittingly wandering towards the bloody scene of horror as the two men stood in the street brandishing knives and a gun.

When police arrived at the scene a marksman fired at Adebolajo until he dropped to the ground after he ran towards officers with a meat cleaver over his head, the court heard.

The Scotland Yard officer stepped in to save a woman colleague who was struggling to get her gun out of its holster as she sat in their police car. Mr Whittam said: ‘She saw he had a meat cleaver or machete. She immediately thought, “He’s going to kill me”.’

CCTV footage shows Adebolajo falling down like a rag doll as the first of eight shots are heard. His alleged accomplice Adebowale then collapses but still manages to aim the gun – which was later found to be a revolver made nearly a century ago which was unloaded – at police.

A third officer then shot Adebowale before police stripped both men of their weapons and started the urgent first aid which saved their lives.

Crossing: The footage then shows Fusilier Rigby taking a step into the road

Turn: The Vauxhall Tigra begins to veer towards Fusilier Rigby

Yesterday Adebowale, also known as Ismail Ibn Abdullah, and Adebolajo, also known as Mujaahid Abu Hamza, sat in the dock in silence. Adebolajo held a copy of the Koran.

Adebowale, known to his family by his middle name Tobi, was brought up as a Christian and converted to Islam when he was 17, the court heard.

Relatives of Mr Rigby sat only yards from the men, screened from view by paper stuck to the glass of the side of the dock.

Mr Rigby, from Middleton, Rochdale, had served in the Army for almost seven years, the Old Bailey was told. After joining in July 2006, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and served as a machine gunner.

He was posted to bases in Cyprus, Jordan, Germany and Helmand, Afghanistan, and took part in ceremonial public duties, including Beating the Retreat on Horse Guards’ Parade.

At the time of his death he was working as a recruiter for the Army and assisted with duties at the regimental HQ at the Tower of London.

Adebolajo and Adebowale deny murdering Mr Rigby, conspiracy to murder a police officer and attempted murder. They admit possessing a firearm.

The trial continues.

Inches away: A final shot shows the car just about to make impact

‘It was an eye for an eye, ranted the extremist’

Michael Adebolajo ranted at bystanders about how the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby was ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth’.

The Islamic extremist launched a series of tirades at bystanders, police and medics, even handing a note to one trying to justify his ‘heinous behaviour’, the jury heard.

Mobile phone footage was shown to the court of Adebolajo, 28, clutching a meat cleaver and with his hands dripping in blood, making his speech as the motionless, ‘almost decapitated’ body of Rigby lay nearby.

In the clip, he says: ‘The only reason we’ve killed this person is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers.

‘It’s an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. These soldiers go to our land, kill, bomb our people.

‘Remove your governments – they don’t care about you. You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? You think politicians are going to die?

‘No, it’s going to be the average guy, like you, and your children. So get rid of them – tell them to bring our troops back so we can all live in peace. Leave our land.’

Victim: Fusilier Rigby can be seen minutes before his death getting off a DLR train at Woolwich Station

Adebolajo apologises that women and children had to witness the attack. ‘But this is what our women and children have to witness every day,’ he says.

Before being shot by police alongside his alleged accomplice Michael Adebowale, Adebolajo hands a rambling, handwritten letter to passerby Amanda Donnelly Martin. Addressed to ‘my beloved children’, he tells them that to ‘fight Allah’s enemies is an obligation’.

As paramedics try to treat his gunshot wounds, he said: ‘Please let me lay here, I don’t want anyone to die, I just want the soldiers out of my country.

‘Your government is wrong, I did it for my God. I wish the bullets had killed me so I can join my friends and family.’

As he was being lifted into the ambulance, the jury heard, he continued: ‘I want to thank the person who shot me.’

And while one of the paramedics was trying to stem his wound he told them: ‘Allah gave me this arm and you can do what you want with it.’

Richard Whittam, QC, prosecuting, said: ‘Adebolajo then said that British soldiers were killing and raping women in his  land and that the British soldiers deserved to die.’

The court heard he kept talking about living in peace under Sharia Law and ‘constantly referred to his Muslim faith and his hatred for Christianity and British soldiers’. He refused painkillers and to be touched by any female staff in hospital.

A few days later he was released and interviewed by police, telling them: ‘I am a Muslim extremist, this may be the only chance you meet one.’ 

Children: Schoolchildren near the scene of the murder were shepherded away

The Angels of Woolwich who put compassion before their safety

Women raced to the side of the lifeless soldier even as his bloodied killers stood over his body, the Old Bailey was told.

CCTV footage showed the women, later dubbed the ‘angels of Woolwich’, kneeling at Lee Rigby’s side.

Their bravery and decency was in distinct contrast to the barbarism of the two killers, said Richard Whittam, QC, prosecuting.

‘Despite the abhorrence of the scene one woman went up to the lifeless body of Lee Rigby and stroked him to provide some comfort and humanity to what had unfolded,’ he said. ‘Others went to see if they could provide first aid.

‘Another woman engaged Michael Adebolajo in conversation despite the fact that he was still holding the meat cleaver and his hands were covered in blood.’

The jury was told Amanda Donnelly Martin and her daughter Gemini comforted the soldier as Ingrid Loyau-Kennet spoke to Adebolajo and Adebowale.

A third woman, Vikki Cave, a trained first aider, ran to the body but was told there was ‘nothing to be done’, Mr Whittam said.

Witness James Henegan told the court he saw both men attacking Lee Rigby with knives.

One of the men then got a carrier bag from the car and pulled out a gun.

“I thought he was going to fire the gun at us,” said Mr Henegan. “I just didn’t know what to do.”

He described it as “the most traumatic thing I have ever witnessed’”

Mr Henegan choked back tears as defence barrister David Gottlieb told him: “My client is anxious for you to know that even if you had arrived earlier there was absolutely nothing you could have done to stop it.”

The jury was then sent home until tomorrow.

Cheralee Armstrong, who was on her way to work at the time of the attack, said in a statement: “I thought they were resuscitating the person on the floor following a car crash.

“I then saw the man’s arm. He kept ramming two knives into the person with some force.

“It was like they were mutilating the person’s body. It seemed like they were trying to remove the person’s organs from his body.

“There was blood everywhere underneath the body. I shouted “they are stabbing him, they are killing him.”

She shouted at the men to stop and described one of the attackers as having a blank stare, “pure evil and his eyes were bulging’”

The attacker then got a gun from his bag and pointed it at her.

“The man didn’t say anything but continued to stare at us. I shouted ‘He’s got a gun.’ I thought i was going to die.”

Miss Armstrong then saw the men drag the body along the pavement and throw it into the road ‘like a piece of rubbish’.

The first live witness, Gary Perkins, said he saw one of the men trying to cut off Lee Rigby’s head “like a butcher hacking at a piece of meat”

The other attacker made ‘frenzied stabbing motions’ at the soldier’s body.

He added that his colleague Gill Hucks “was in an extreme state of distress.”

Gill Hucks said in a statement: “I could not believe they were doing what they were doing in the middle of the afternoon in the middle of the street.

“He was cutting into his neck from ear to ear. Male one then dragged him in front of my car. He then flung the body on to the road.

“In my rear view mirror I saw a man approaching the attackers. The males threatened him and he left.

“I had almost totally lost control and was screaming. I was shaking and very upset. Quite a crowd gathered and people filmed on their mobile phones.

“The men made no attempt to run from the scene.”

The widow of soldier Lee Rigby left court in tears today as jurors heard the eyewitness accounts of how he was run over and attacked with a meat cleaver and knives.

Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC has been reading statements made by members of the public who saw the Fusilier’s alleged murder near Woolwich barracks.

Fusilier Rigby’s widow Rebecca left the oak-panelled courtroom in tears as the statements were read,

Jurors were read a statement from Amanda Bailey, who stopped her car alongside the scene of the crash in Artillery Place.

“It seemed a long time passed before the driver got out of the car. I then saw the driver reach into his sweatshirt jacket.

“I thought he was reaching for a phone to call an ambulance but i was shocked when he pulled out a knife with a rectangular blade.

“It was a cleaver about three inches wide. He was holding the cleaver in his right hand.

“He grabbed the young man with his hand and started hacking at his neck with the knife.

‘It opened up a large cut and I could see a spray of blood. He was still hacking. He was using a lot of force to hack at the young man’s neck.

“He was raising it up and bringing it down repeatedly.

“I couldn’t take my eyes off what the driver was doing to the young man. It was just crazy.

“I was so shocked all i could do was sit there and stare at what was happening. He was determined and wasn’t going to stop.

“This man didn’t care who was there and who wasn’t there.

“The whole incident had taken about two minutes. It felt like a lifetime.”

She then drove away and warned a group of schoolchildren not to approach the scene.

Jury hears a statement from a taxi driver who was following the car which hit Lee Rigby.

“When it crossed the central reservation it accelerated and veered diagonally across to the right, mounted the kerb and drove on the pavement.

“I saw a man being flipped into the air as he was hit.

“‘Four or five seconds later the passenger got out of the passenger seat. I saw him making a thrusting motion in and out towards the man’s body.

“He stood by his head. His right hand was chopping at the man’s head with a small chopper or axe.

“The action was like chopping a tree. It was like when somebody slaps a person repeatedly backwards and forwards.”

Shop customer Saraj Miah said in a statement that the car hit Lee Rigby with ‘extreme force.’

He added: “Immediately two black men, one with a chopper knife in his hand, came out of the car.

“The black man with the chopper knife went towards the head of the fallen man.

“I thought the two men with knives in the hand were going to kill him.

I told them: “Do not kill him.” They did not listen.

‘The black man in passenger seat stabbed the fallen man about six times in his chest.

“I told them ‘do not leave’. The black man from the passenger seat took out a gun and aimed it at me.”

Prosecutor Richard Whittam then read the statement of eyewitness Ibrahim Elidemir, a shopkeeper who was standing on the pavement at the time of the impact.

Mr Elidemir said: “I saw a body lying against the wall, which looked like a dead body. It wasn’t moving.

“I saw a black guy standing over him with a knife in his left hand. Its overall length was about 30cm.

“I was scared. I was confused by what I was seeing and wondered what the man was going to do.

“I heard someone saying ‘call the police, get the police.’

“I was very frightened and returned to my shop and operated the electric shutter. I used the shop telephone to call 999.

“I told the lady there had been a car crash and there was somebody stabbing somebody.”

He later heard the gunshot while still in his shop.

“The incident has affected me very badly and made me feel very sad,” he added.

CCTV footage of Fusilier Lee Rigby being hit by a car are shown to the jury in court.

The 25-year-old soldier had arrived at Woolwich Arsenal DLR station at 2.10opm and walked into Wellington Street on his way to Artillery Place.

He was knocked down as he crossed the road towards a shop.

The Lee Rigby trial breaks for lunch.

The jury are shown images of the two defendants travelling by car from Adebolago’s home in Greenwich towards Woolwich at around 1pm.

They drive past the scene of the murder just after 1.30pm, continuing along the barracks and towards the Woolwich Ferry.

Further CCTV shows the car making its way back along the same route towards the scene ten minutes later.

The jury are shown a picture of Adebolajo buying a five-piece knife set and block from Argos the day before the attack.

Further images track the movement of both defendants in the Vauxhall Tigra on the morning of 22 May this year.

Adebolajo is shown buying petrol at around 8.30am and handing his mobile phone to the cashier because he does not have any money.

There is a Koran in his pocket. He returned twenty minutes later to pay the bill with cash.

The Lee Rigby murder trial is now underway again after the weekend break.

Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the jury: “The first part of the evidence will be some agreed facts.”

The judge Mr Justice Sweeney explained that this is evidence accepted by both prosecution and defence.

On Friday, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC delivered his opening speech to the jury.

He said the 25-year-old was victim to “a cowardly and callous murder” when Adebolajo and Adebowale ran him over, dragged him into the middle of the road and attacked him with a meat cleaver and knife.

He told the court: “They wanted members of the public to see the consequence of what can only be described as their barbarous acts.

“They had committed, you may think, a cowardly and callous murder by deliberately attacking an unarmed man in plain clothes from behind, using a vehicle as a weapon, and then they murdered him and mutilated his body with that meat cleaver and knives.”

Adebolajo tried to decapitate the soldier while Adebowale stabbed and cut him, the jury heard.

Video footage of soldier Lee Rigby being mown down by a car was played in court and later released to the media.

It showed a Vauxhall Tigra, that prosecutors claim was being driven by Adebolajo, swerve across the road and mow down the fusilier.

The jury was told that the car was driven “straight at” Fusilier Rigby at a speed of 30-40mph.

Other footage showing the two men dragging his body into the road has not been released.

The trial of two men accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby continues at the Old Bailey, London today.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are charged with killing the Fusilier as he walked back to Woolwich Barracks in south-east London on May 22.

They are also each accused of attempting to murder a police officer on the same day, and conspiracy to murder a police officer on or before that day.           

Father-of-one Fusilier Rigby, 25, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, died of multiple cut and stab wounds when he was attacked as he returned to the barracks after spending the day at the Tower of London.

Adebolajo, from Romford in Essex, has asked to be known as Mujaahid Abu Hamza in court, while Adebowale, from Greenwich, south-east London, has asked to be called Ismail Ibn Abdullah.

The trial is due to restart at noon today.

The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10.30.

When the trial resumed, the judge told the jury not to hold Mr Gottlieb’s outburst against the defendant.

He said: “In a case of this type there are obvious pressures in play.

“Mr Gottlieb has made a handsome apology for our passage of arms just before you retired.

“I have accepted that apology. The one thing that is vitally important is that you don’t hold that against Mr Gottlieb but also not against his client.

“There is a simple issue here in the officer’s evidence and you can consider it in due course on its merits.”

After the conclusion of the officer’s evidence, the prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said the pathologist would be called tomorrow.

The case then finished for the day.

In cross-examination, David Gottlieb, representing Adebolajo, suggested that his client did not mention the victim was ‘in his kit’.

“I’m going to suggest that you would have known full well that the soldier was not wearing full uniform.”

PC Vejnovic replied: “I was not aware of what the soldier was wearing at all.”

The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney then suggested that Mr Gottlieb got to the point and put forward what Adebolajo did in fact say.

Mr Gottlieb replied that his client could not remember what he said and added: “I suggest I am doing my duty in a very difficult case.

“This is a murder trial not a Sunday school outing.”

After the outburst, the judge sent the jury out of court.

Adebolajo continued to make statements to police while held under armed guard in hospital.

On the evening of May 23 he said: “My intention was never to harm any civilians.

“There were women and children around. My intention was to hurt military only. He was in his kit, in his uniform, coming in and out of the barracks.”

Half an hour later he added: “The reason that we are fighting is we believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

“We hope that one day Great Britain will replace those corrupt politicians with men or women who truly care about the security of their citizens by withdrawing from the affairs of Muslims, including their lands.”

On the way to the hospital he told a paramedic that he believed in Sharia law and that British soldiers ‘were raping and killing women in Afghanistan’.

“He said our solders were raping and killing women in Afghanistan. He kept repeating these statements over and over and didn’t stop talking about them all the way to the hospital.”

Another paramedic said in a statement: “He said that the British solders were killing and raping women in his land and the British soldiers deserved to die.

“He was very vocal about the Muslim religion and his hatred of British soldiers.”

Adebolajo at first refused to let paramedics treat him at the scene of the attack.

He told them: “It’s my right to refuse it. Please respect my rights. Please let me lie here.

“I don’t want anyone to die. I just want the soldiers out of my country.

“Your Government is all wrong. I did it for my God. I wish the bullets had killed me so I can join my friends and family.”

The paramedic said that Adebolajo spoke “very politely and in a softly spoken voice.”

After shooting Michael Adebolajo, E48 got out of the car and noticed Michael the second man, Adebowale, pointing a handgun.

“I know become aware of the second male… pointing a firearm. He was clearly a greater threat.”

Adebowale was shot in the stomach and leg by officer E42 and fell to the ground but attempted to aim the gun at them again, the court heard.

E48 said: “He raised one of his arms up. I still have a distinct image in my mind of him holding a black revolver in his hand.”

Adebowale was then shot in the hand.

After securing the scene, E48 bandaged a wound in Adebowale’s leg which was pouring blood, the court heard.

“Once the threat is neutralised we have duty of care to all persons. We will try to save their life, whoever they are.”

The Lee Rigby murder trial resumes after lunch.

Officer E48 was armed with a Glock 17 pistol with 34 rounds of live ammunition, an MP5 Carbine with 45 rounds, a 5.56mm rifle with 60 rounds, a Taser and a grab bag full of extra bullets.

He had pulled out the MP5 from the safe in the back seat after receiving reports of the suspects armed with knives, a gun and a meat cleaver.

E48 told the jury: “I see these two males. The male who ran at the car, my attention was absorbed by him. He was holding a knife in his hand.

“He started to move towards our vehicle. Almost instantly he broke into a sprint. I realised we were being attacked and we had very little time to deal with that threat.

“The driver is trapped and unable to defend herself. I seemed to react instinctively.

“The second he started sprinting at us I made the decision to fire and until he fell away from the vehicle I was still in the frame of mind I needed to take decisive action to stop him.”

A second armed officer, identified as E48, was in court to give evidence in person.

He sat behind two large screens in the witness box, passing his warrant card to the judge to confirm his true identity.

Mr Whittam asked him why only one armed unit was sent to the scene.

E48 told the court: “It is always better to have more armed units but that was not something we could do at the time.”

The prosecutor asked whether that was because of the “urgency” of the situation, and the officer replied: “Yes.”

Jurors were shown council CCTV footage of the arrival of armed police at the scene of the murder.

At first the attackers are pacing around on the pavement with their weapons. They then spot the police.

One man runs at the car with the machete raised above his head and almost gets to the driver’s door before being shot.

The second man is shot as he runs with his arm raised holding a gun.

The officers then begin giving first aid to the suspects, while at least two members of the public film it on their mobile phones.

Further footage, taken from an overlooking flat, of the suspects being shot was also  played to the jury.

In the soundtrack, people could be heard screaming as shots were fired.

Police officer D49 said in a statement that she joined the Metropolitan Police in 2003 and the Specialist Firearms Command in 2008.

She and her two colleagues E42 and E48 were in Lewisham when the call came: “Trojan unit to assist Artillery Place – man armed with a firearm”

They received further details as she drove to the scene.

“I then realised we were attending a very serious incident. CCTV had confirmed the suspects were still on the scene and confirmed they were armed.

“I had my sirens and two tones on.”

“In my head I planned to drive into the road and I thought i would see the suspects and drive past them and cut off their exit route.

“I wanted to be in a position to react as quickly as possible. If we went on foot they could have seen us early and fired at us, injuring members of the public.

“I decided to drive into Artillery Place to get as close to the suspects as possible.

“I saw a flash to my right and saw a black male running at me with both hands in the air in a chopping motion. In his right hand he had a machete.

“I instantly thought, he’s going to kill me. I went to draw my Glock. I could not immediately draw my Glock out.

“t was a split second decision to draw my Taser. I could still see the look in the suspect’s eyes. They were so wide and I could see the whites of them.

“He was shouting something.

“I opened my door to get out and heard shots from behind me. I think the suspect was about one metre away from my door at this point”

Officer D49 fired her Taser at him, hitting him in the chest and leg, the court heard.

“I was so focused on suspect one that it was only when I heard further shots I saw the other man. He had a gun in his hand.

“It felt like everything went in slow motion.

“He turned a silver handgun. It was pointing in my direction. I thought ‘oh my god, he’s going to shoot me’.

“I feared for my life, threw my Taser to the ground and drew my Glock. As I was doing this I heard shots.

“I then saw the gun fall to the ground. I believe he was incapacitated.”

She turned back to suspect one and shouted: “Do not move. Do not touch that knife.”

Officer D49 then began giving first aid to the first man: “I saw the Taser barb in his jumper, still attached. I saw the other in his jeans.”

Sarah Riordan, who was heavily pregnant and due to give birth in seven weeks, started feeling contractions after witnessing the attack.

“I heard a loud gunshot that scared me and I ran directly across the road to the number 53 bus.

“As I was doing this I heard four more shots. I then started to get contraction type pains every two minutes.”

She took cover on a 291 bus and later went to the hospital to be checked out.

“Fortunately everything was all right with my baby and me.”

Witness Samuel Williams was coming back from his last job on the way back to the depot.

He said in a statement he first thought one of the attackers was trying to resuscitate Lee Rigby.

“When I saw the black man pull the gun I said to my wife ‘get back, he’s got a gun.’ At that point i basically s**t myself.

“The black man with the gun kept waving it around in the air.

“Then I saw two female teachers and they were leading a group of schoolchildren aged 8 or 9.

“I said to the teachers, “get the kids into the school because there’s a bloke up there with a handgun.”

Grandmother Tina Nimmo choked back tears in the witness box as she described the attack on Lee Rigby.

She told jurors she saw one man “chopping down at something on the floor.”

Ms Nimmo said she started shouting at the two men to stop.

“They were just holding their weapons up. I wanted them to stop.

“Then this whole bus load of people wanted to come and have a look and it just made it more difficult to control.”

She said she shouted “hang back, he’s got a gun” but people continued to approach the scene.

The men then “posed a bit more, very proud of what they had in their hands,” she added.

Ms Nimmo continued to try and prevent traffic from approaching the scene and warn people away.

“These chaps weren’t going anywhere,” she added. “It just became obvious something was going to happen.”

She was still at the scene when the two men were shot by armed police.

Michelle Nimmo, who was driving near the barracks with her baby and mother, said: ‘I saw what looked like a car crash on the other side of the road.

“There was a man lying face down in front of this car, covered in blood. There were two men leaning over him.

“These men began repeatedly attacking the man on the ground, chopping away at him all over.

“I parked my car opposite the scene of the attack. My mum got out and walked towards the attacker.

“I shouted at my mum to get back as I was worried about her safety, but she wanted to help the man on the floor.

“The men then dragged the man into the road by his top half.

“People wanted to help the man on the floor but any attempts to get close were met from threatening gestures with the knives and the gun.”

The two men then walked away.

Ms Nimmo added: “They looked very proud of what they had done.

“My mother approached the victim but the man with the gun waved it in a threatening manner so she moved back.”

One of them then posed for a photo taken by a member of the public, she said.

“When he turned round he had a smirk on his face.”

Miss Nimmo added: “They stood around looking proud and posing with the gun and knives. All the crowds of people gathering were screaming and shouting.”

At one point an elderly lady with a trolley walked past the bloodstained attacker.

Jurors were shown a mobile phone video of Adebolajo, holding a meat cleaver in his hand, telling members of the public:

“The only reason we have killed this man today is Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers and this is one of those soldiers so an eye for an eye.

“We will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. When you drop a bomb do you think it picks one person to kill or wipes out a whole family.

“We must fight – an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.

“I apologise that women had to see this today but in our land they see worse every day.

“David Cameron will be caught in the street. Get rid of the troops bring them back. Leave our lands.”

Jurors were read a note handed to a witness by Adebolajo, which claimed the ‘carnage’ was carried out in retaliation for repression in Muslim lands.

“To my beloved children know that to fight Allah’s enemies is an obligation. The proofs of which are so numerous that but a handful of any of them cuts out the bewitching tongues of the Munafiqeen.

“Do not spend your days in endless dispute with the cowardly and foolish if it means it will delay you meeting Allah’s enemies on the battlefield.

“Sometimes the cowardly and foolish could be those dearest to you so be prepared to turn away from them. When you set out on this path do not look left or right.

“Seek Shaheedala oh my sons so that you might be raised together and if its Allah’s decree that you are not to be in the hearts of green birds.

“Then be ready for to enter the University of Joosuf Sijn. Be patient there and be firm there and inshallah you will meet your Lord with him pleased with you.

“Verily Allah is with those who are patient. If I live beyond this day and you find me talking other than this then know that perhaps Allah has left me to stray.

“If you find yourself curious as to why carnage is reaching your own towns then know its simply retaliation for your oppression in our towns.

“Many of your people are aristocrats that directly benefit from invasion of our lands without material loss.

“Whereas the average Joe Bloggs working class man loses his sons when they are killed by our brothers.

“When the heat of battle reaches YOUR local street its unlikely that any of your so called politicians will be at risk or caught in the crossfire so I suggest you remove them.

“Remove them and replace them with people who will secure your safety by the immediate withdrawal from the affairs of the Muslims.

“Muslims will trade with you on fair terms but understand that the days of your international armed robbery is drawing to a close.

“To humble yourselves willingly is better for you. May Allah guide your nation to the truth.”

Vikki Cave said in a statement read to the court: “I noticed people standing around. I saw a body in the street, a lady crying.

“My first thought was to stop because someone had been run over. I spoke to the lady who said ‘he’s been stabbed’.”

As a first aid trainer i wanted to check to see if i could do anything.

‘I saw the mixed race lady sat on the floor. She said “there’s nothing to be done, he’s gone.”

He was wearing a blue help for heroes top. I could see a lot of blood and could tell a major artery had been severed.

Miss Cave described how both men were armed with knives and machete.

She added: “The taller man had blood on his hands.

“He was saying, shouting stuff about religion ‘these solders go to our lands, kill / bomb our people, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’

“I spoke to him: ‘Are you going to hurt her?’

“He replied: ‘No, women and children are safe. You need to keep back when the police and army arrive.’

“They then started talking about soldiers and Afghanistan and the damage done.”

The jury were shown CCTV footage of the killers dragging the body of Lee Rigby into the middle of the road, causing traffic to stop.

Drivers can be seen manoeuvring their cars to drive away and a man wheels a bicycle right past the body.

Council CCTV footage also shows the men wandering around on the pavement holding bloodstained knives.

Several brave members of the public, including grandmother Tina Nimmo, approach the men.

Amanda Donnelly Martin then runs up to the body of Lee Rigby and cradles him in her arms.

Day three of the Lee Rigby murder trial is due to get underway this morning.

Yesterday jurors at the Old Bailey heard a series of graphic eyewitness accounts in the trial of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

Fusilier Rigby’s widow Rebecca left the oak-panelled courtroom weeping as statements described how her husband was allegedly murdered as he walked back to Woolwich Barracks in south east London on May 22.

Earlier in the day, the jury was shown images of Adebolajo on May 21 purchasing a five-piece set of knives and a knife sharpener at the Lewisham branch of Argos.

They were also shown CCTV stills of the car being driven by Adebolajo at different locations in Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich.

Adebolajo, 28, and Adebowale, 22, are accused of running the soldier over and hacking him to death with a meat cleaver and knives.

They deny a charge of murder, as well as further counts of attempting to murder a police officer and conspiracy to murder a police officer.