19/12/2013 BBC News at Six

The murder of fusilier Lee Rigby - two men are found guilty of killing

him in cold blood in the middle of a busy London street.

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale showed no remorse for

having driven at Lee Rigby, knocked him down and then hacked him to

death. This horrific attack and murder, which took based in broad

daylight on the streets of London, shocked the whole country.

In an interview with the BBC, Lee Rigby's parents tell how they saw

the aftermath of the murder on TV without realising it was their son.

There are screens that we have in work and it was on TV in the

canteen. I actually sat there and watched it.

We'll be looking at what caused two British Christians to become Islamic

extremists determined to kill. Also tonight: The surgeon who left

his patients at risk of breast cancer - his hospital trust is

condemned for weak and indecisive leadership.

A jury hears how messages left by Prince William on Kate Middleton's

phone were hacked by the News of the World.

And the most ambitious mission ever into space to unlock the secrets of

a billion stars in our galaxy. Coming up in the sport: No change at

the top at Rangers. The board survives an overthrow attempt.

Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. Two men have been found

guilty of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby near Woolwich Barracks in May.

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale had both denied the

charges, claiming they were soldiers of Allah. A jury took just 90

minutes to convict them of murder. Fusilier Rigby's family wept as the

verdicts were delivered. Later we'll have an interview with his parents,

and we'll be looking at what led the two men to commit such a horrific

crime. But first our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly. Her report

contains images which some viewers may find distressing.

The only reason why we have killed this man today is because Muslims

are dying daily by British soldiers. And this reduced soldier is one. He

had just butchered a British soldier by trying to behead him in broad

daylight on a London street. Michael Adebolajo, on the left, and his

fellow killer, Michael Adebowale, saw themselves as soldiers of Allah.

Lee Rigby's killing was described as an act of war. Lee Rigby's family

had to endure days of distressing evidence. After the verdict, it was

a police officer who spoke for them. We are satisfied that justice has

been done. But no amount of Justice will bring Lee Rigby back. These

people have taken him away from us forever. Throughout the trial,

Michael Adebolajo had a copy of the Koran. As he left the dock today, he

kissed it. Lee Rigby, in a Help for Heroes top, was on his way back to

the barracks when he was killed. As he crossed the road, they drove

their car at him. Adebolajo then tried to decapitate Lee Rigby,

striking his neck repeatedly with a meat cleaver, while Adebowale used a

knife to cut that his body. And all of this being watched by members of

the public. The men dragged the soldier's body into the middle of

the road. Ingrid Loyau-Kennett was among those who try to help Lee

Rigby. I heard a voice saying don't touch the body. That is when I

lifted my head and I saw straight at eye level, two hands, one carrying

the meat cleavers and the butcher 's knife and the other one having a

revolver. With his hands soaked in the soldier's blood, Michael

Adebolajo began delivering his message. You people will never be

safe. He and Adebowale then waited for firearms officers to arrive. The

plan was to martyr themselves by dying in a hail of bullets. The

first Michael was walking up and down with the meat cleavers. As soon

as they heard the police car, he ran at them with the meat cleavers and

they had to shoot him, they had no choice. You can see Adebolajo go

down as a police marksman opened fire. Officers then surrounded

Adebowale. In one hand, his revolver raised at them, in the other, a

knife. He too was shot. In police interviews Adebolajo describes how

they selected their victim. The soldier is the most fair target

because he joins the army with kind of an understanding that your life

is at risk when you join the army, you know? Today, as the men left the

Old Bailey, questions about what led them to commit such an act of

savagery, and for political leaders, the challenge to stop others going

down the same path. We have to be double our efforts to confront the

poisonous narrative of extremism and violence that lay behind this and

make sure we do everything to beat it in our country. And condemnation

of the attack from Muslim leaders. We are very clear that we abhor

terrorism, that people carrying out this in the name of our faith do not

do so. We reject their violence, their extremism and we reject their

attempts to try and divide communities. Lee Rigby had joined

the Army as a teenager. This was him on a tour of Afghanistan. He was a

true warrior having served with distinction in Afghanistan. That his

life was ended in this way was a cruel tragedy. He has left a young

son, Jack. Today, his family said they want to make him as proud of

Lee as they are. Fusilier Rigby's family said justice

had been done but it could not bring back their son. They had walked out

of the trial in distress several times during the harrowing evidence.

Today the judge praised their dignity throughout. In an interview

with the BBC, his family described how Lee had always wanted to join

the army. He joined the cadets. He did numerous things. He went to

college on a pre-training course, everything leading up to going into

the Army, anything he could do that would give him some clue about what

the army would be about because it was really something that he always

had a craving to do. He was so determined. Whenever anything

happened in Afghanistan, even not killed, even if they were hurt, he

would phone home immediately, just to put our mind at ease. The first

thing he always did, it is not me, I am safe. Even when he was stuck in

the middle of wherever in Afghanistan, they managed between

them, one of them always had a phone with them and they all used it

between them to phone home. Defend their mums. I went into work and it

was on TV in the canteen. I actually sat there and watched it all. I was

just going up to bed. I just put out the light in the hallway and was

going into the bedroom, obviously, there was a knock on the door so I

went to the window. There were four gentleman stood there will stop. And

I knew then why they were here. I would not wish anybody, whoever they

are, to go through the same pain of what they put lead through, what

they put the family through, having to sit and watch, what they did to

hourly. -- what they did to our son. Lee died serving his country, doing

what he believed in, serving the country to preserve our way of life,

our freedom of speech, and the opportunity to be able to walk the

streets in peace and say what you feel, because that is what his

country is all about. And that is what we believed in and what we

believed he was doing in the Army, preserving our democracy and serving

our country and all over the world, because he has been all over the

world in that job. The parents of Fusilier Lee Rigby

there. In court, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale described

themselves as soldiers of Allah and said they killed Lee Rigby as part

of a military operation. Peter Taylor, from the BBC's Panorama

programme, has been investigating the background of the two killers

who were raised as Christians. He spoke to Omar Bakri Mohammed.

How did the lives of these two different young men collide in

Woolwich? Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale grew up in

Christian families but later converted to radical Islam.

Adebolajo was seen speaking at a rally in north-west London,

associated with Al-Muhajiroun, the radical Islamist group founded by

the preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed. Last Christmas Eve, at an event

outside Saint Pauls, Michael Adebowale was seen in this exclusive

footage. The police stood in the background. In Somalia we saw that

there were a few people who rose up to establish Islamic law and what

happened, America came and dropped bombs on their heads. And then

after, they dropped bombs on their children's heads, their mother's

heads and their wives heads. Omar Bakri Mohammed has not been allowed

to enter the UK because the government said his presence was not

conducive to the public good. He oversaw Adebolajo's conversion to

Islam and was a key figure in his radicalisation before he left the UK

after the 77 attack. His defence was combated which may upset and anger

some viewers. What he said mirrored Adebolajo's defence in court. The

killers considered themselves as soldiers of Allah. From the eyes of

Michael, it is justified Islamic Lee because the man was killing Muslims

in Afghanistan. But Drummer Lee Rigby was not a murderer? He was, he

was with the Army. Every single member of the British Army, and the

British really involved themselves abroad. In 2010, Adebolajo flew to

Kenya. He wanted to get to Somalia and fight with Al-Shabab, the

Islamist group who claimed responsibility for the Westgate

shopping centre massacre three months ago. He travelled on his own

passport but we understand he was not stopped or questioned at

Heathrow. I am surprised by that. I would ordinarily have expected a lot

of interest in him leaving the country and where he was going and

what the purpose of his travel, that is clearly a missed opportunity.

Panorama has travelled to Kenya to uncover the secret jihadi network

used by Adebolajo. Adebolajo never made it across the border. He was

arrested by Kenyan police and deported to the UK. It is alleged he

was approached by MI5 a few months after his return, but refused to

work for them. Was this another opportunity missed? I'm not going to

say what happened to him when he came back. He says he was and he and

his family were harassed by the security service. I don't think

anybody should be surprised necessarily, that somebody who is

clearly a subject of interest to the agencies might be approached.

Questions that were never addressed at the trial remain about whether

Lee Rigby's murder could have been prevented. The security service has

briefed Parliament's intelligence and Security committee which is

expected to report early next year. Today's guilty verdict does not mark

the end of The Untold Story. We can talk to June Kelly who was at

the Old Bailey following this trial. This attack on Fusilier Lee Rigby,

an attack on a soldier, was something the Army had long dreaded.

That is right. Most of the Islamist plots which had happened in this

country had involved a number of people and the use of explosives.

What happened that Woolwich is what the security service, MI5, would

term a low-tech attack. They say these attacks are very difficult to

counter because what you had here was minimal planning said the

authorities were not alerted and an attack which is easy to carry out.

We know that Michael Adebolajo only bought a set of knives the day

before the killing. As we were hearing in Peter's report, these men

were known to the security service, MI5, and in the coming weeks we will

learn more on that front now that the court case is over. I should add

that both of these men were facing an additional charge of attempting

to murder a police officer. They were both acquitted of that charge.

Sentencing will happen in the New Year. You can see that report on

Panorama tonight. A breast surgeon was allowed to

carry on using an unauthorised technique which left hundreds of

women at risk of recurring cancer despite concerns dating back nearly

a decade. A report has criticised weak and indecisive management at

Solihull Hospital, describing clinicians at their wits end trying

to get the trust to address what was going on. Up to 400 women are now

thought to be suing the trust. Here's Dominic Hughes. This is Ian

Patterson, now suspended by the General Medical Council and under

investigation by the police. He operated on women with suspected

breast cancer, but used a procedure known as a cleavage sparing

mastectomy, that left behind potentially cancerous tissue. Now

the Trust has received a damning report into how the surgeon was

allowed to continue work. An ineffective board, weak leadership,

staff reluctant to speak out. A priority of patient not the highest

priority, those sort of things. And when that happens, patients suffer.

It is a story of missed opportunities from 2003 when

concerns were first raised to critical reports being ignored. Ian

Paterson was warned to stop performing the operation but didn't.

Patients were recalled, suspension by the General Medical Council

followed. Now 3,500 cases will be carried out. He carried out a

cleavage sparing mastectomy on this woman. Now she worries about her

future. I know I'm clear but you worry will it come back. The four

years I was with the cleavage breast tissue, has that limited my life

expectancy? The report tells a sorry -- story that the author say is

familiar, with a collapse of culture where Mags are -- managers are more

concerned with protecting the reputation of the organisation. The

Trust has apologised to patients and staff who for years tra tried --

tried to raise concerns. I'm angry that he never got proper consent

from his patient and didn't keep proper record keeping and that the

former leadership of the trust had so many opportunities to stop this

operation happening, but they didn't. Hundreds of women are taking

legal action and the police investigation into Ian Paterson

continues. Our top story this evening: Two men have been found

guilty of killing Fusilier Lee Rigby as he walked outside his barracks in

south London in May this year. Coming up: A new telescope that will

map a billion stars is launched - its destination nearly a million

miles from earth. And in the sport: It has taken him 13 days, but the FA

chairman has defend himself after criticism of his throat-cut gesture

of England's world cup draw. The jury at the hacking trial has

heard that Kate Middleton's phone was hacked by staff working for the

former tabloid newspaper, the News of the World. The prosecution told

the Old Bailey that a message from William left on Kate's mobile phone

had been discovered at the house of the paper's former royal editor in

2006. Another message was found on Prince Harry's phone - thought to be

left by Prince William. Former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy

Coulson are currently on trial with five others accused of a variety of

offences including conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails from

mobiles. They deny all the charges. From the Old Bailey, Clive Coleman

reports. This report cop tans some flash frofy. O' -- contains some

frash photography. This is the first time that the jury's been told that

personal messages left by the future king were intercepted. Prince

William and Kate Middleton, then girlfriend and boyfriend, had just

graduated from university. He was an officer cadet in training at

Sandhurst, leaving messages on her mobile phone. The jury were told

that in one he referred to her as "Oh my little babykins". In another

he described a night navigation exercise in which he got lost.

The jury were told that when the News of the World wrote up the

story, it said that Prince William had been shot with blanks, not that

he had nearly been shot. The jury were then told that his brother,

Prince Harry, had also had his mobile phone hacked. The jury were

shown the transcript of a message left on the prince's voice mail,

from a male impersonating his then Chelsy.

When that story was written up by the paper, they claimed Prince

William had been impersonating his brother's girlfriend and that Prince

Harry had been given an ear-bashing by the pretend girlfriend and he had

found it hilarious. The seven defendants deny all the charges, the

trial is set to last well into next year. A man has been sentenced to

life for murdering a 17-year-old girl he lured to his parent's home.

The 23-year-old admitted strangling Georgia Williams. The judge said

James Reynolds carried out a sadistic murder and would remain a

danger to women for the rest of his life. British secret agents may have

been involved in the rendition of terror suspects to other countries

and did witness the mistreatment of detainees there. An inquiry into the

actions of the intelligence services concluded official guidance on

detention and torture had been inadequate - but found no evidence

British agents were directly involved in mistreating or torturing

detainees. Campaigners and human rights lawyers pulled out of the

inquiry earlier this year, claiming it lacked credibility. Gordon Corera

reports. Case after case has raised questions about what British

intelligence knew of the mistreatment of detainees by other

countries in the so-called war on terror. Even whether Britain was

involved in rendition, sending people abroad to be tortured. The

allegations the Prime Minister said were a stain on the country's

reputation. To investigate he announced a judge-led inquiry. The

judge today reported his initial findings, based on 20,000 documents.

It does appear from the documents that the United Kingdom may have

been inappropriately involved in some renditions. That is a very

serious matter. And no doubt any future inquiry would want to look at

that. Today's report raises 27 different issues about the work of

British intelligence. These range from whether intelligence officers

should have withdrawn from interrogations when there were

suspicions individuals were being mistreated and they should have

challenged over country about the treatment and combl ministers were

told enough or asked enough questions. The inquiry was not able

to finish its work, because of what is alleged to have happened in

Libya. There are claims from a man who says MI6 was involved in

transferring him in 2004 to Libya, where he says he was tortured. The

foreign sect rip at the time, Jack Straw, said he had not been involved

in illegal Rennes daysing. Today, the Government acknowledged there

had been mistakes after the September 11thth 2001 attacks. I

believe I speak for the whole House when I say if fillures -- failures

were made, that is a matter of regret. Among the cases the inquiry

examined were those of Britains held at Guantanamo Bay. One detainee said

admitting mistakes is not enough. Rendition means kidnap, torture and

if an ordinary person did that, they would been convicted. Why is the

Government immune. The inquiry will be taken forward by a Parliamentary

Committee. But critics say this goes back on the promise to have a

judge-led inquiry. The world's most powerful camera has been launched

into space, on an ambitious five year mission to produce a three

dimensional map of more than a billion stars in our galaxy. The

Gaia probe will travel on a month-long journey through space

before it reaches its destination -- a million miles from Earth. Our

Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh has the story. Lighting up the night

sky and leaving the earth toward the stars. The mission issing to create

the most detailed map of our galaxy ever undertaken. I'm at the royal

astrop nonical society which has books full of stars and galaxies,

but after this, many will need to be rewritten. This is our planet. The

earth. It is one of eight worlds that orbit the sun. Together, they

make up the solar system. And our own sun is one of billions of stars

in our galaxy, which is called the Milky Way. It is thought to have a

spiral shape, with us here on one of the arms. Well, that is the theory,

but it is based on the observations of just a few hundred stars that we

can see really well. But Gaia will be able to track the size, motion

and brightness of more than a billion stars and will get a much

clearer idea of what the Milky Way is really like. It will also be able

to track exotic stars, such as white drar ofs and -- dwarfs and red and

blue giants. Once we understand our own galaxy, we will know about the

others scattered across the universe. Gaia will turn the Milky

Way into the rosette stone. We will know how old it is, how it is still

coming together and what will happen to it in the future. It is a

complete revolution. Scientist expect Gaia to find new things that

no one had imagined. Closer to home here is the weather. We are tracking

spirals too, as the low pressure systems keep coming. A bit of a lull

tonight. Things will turn cold and we have seen sleet and snow tonight.

It may also turn icy. Some snow here and behind it we could see things

turning slippery on the roads and some icy patches. Snow showers

pepper western Scotland. Here and again in Northern Ireland the risk

of some ice forming as temperatures in towns and cities are just above

freezing. A cold start tomorrow, but for many a bright start with

sunshine. Still plenty of snow o' showers in Scotland. Some showers

elsewhere, but then the cloud thickens and the next area of low

pressure promises more wet and windy weather by the end of tomorrow. Many

central and eastern areas having a dry and bright day. It will feel

chilly with some sunshine. Clouding over in northern England and the

rain arriving at 3 o'clock. Wet in western Northern Ireland and western

Scotland. The winds will whip up to 60mph in the north-west. It is a

very blustery night. The rain hangs on in the south. And that rain hangs

on here for much of Saturday. A wet day in the south. Elsewhere,

blustery showers and sunny spells in the east. Faechlts above average --

temperatures above average, but it will feel cooler. More stormy

weather on Christmas week. You can get the details online. Thank you.

Our main story: Two men are found guilty of killing Lee Rigby in a

cold-blooded attack in London. In court Michael Adebolajo and Michael

Adebowale show nod remorse. That is all from us. Now we join our news

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