Michael Adebolajo, 33, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, has reportedly expressed remorse for his actions. A source told the The Sun on Sunday, "A month ago he approached a fellow inmate and a member of prison pastoral staff to say he finally regretted the murder. He told them he acknowledged for the first time he had taken an innocent life” and that Adebolajo “even admitted he misinterpreted the Koran in trying to justify his horrific actions”.
Adebolajo, who is currently at high-security HMP Woodhill, outside Milton Keynes, is the son of a probation officer, and was radicalised at the age of 19, after dropping out of his politics degree at Greenwich University. He became associated with al-Muhajiroun, the banned extremist group led by hate preacher Anjem Choudary, prior to killing Rigby.
Since his conviction, Adebolajo, who had previously insisted on being called Mujahid Abu Hamza, apologised for the first time for murdering Lee Rigby in 2013 and according to prison sources, he plans to write a letter of apology to the victim's family. Lyn Rigby, the 51-year-old mother of Lee Rigby, told The Sun that she will never forgive Adebolajo for killing her son. She said, “To hear his killer say that Lee was innocent and that he regrets killing him is the ultimate kick in the teeth”.
