Shocking damage to Lee Rigby's 'killers''car revealed as murder trial jurors are shown knives found at scene after vehicle struck soldier in Woolwich.

Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, 22, both deny Lee Rigby's murder and conspiracy to murder a police officer

Old Bailey shown wrecked car used to knock down Lee Rigby at 40mph

Pictures of knives brought to Woolwich by suspects exhibited to jury

Interviews with Michael Adebolajo, 28, after Lee Rigby's death are played

'It brings me little joy to approach anyone and slay them,' he said

Psychiatrist told his actions had been 'on the basis of his religious beliefs'

'Mr Adebolajo presented with no signs of mental disorder,' he said

Suspect told police Lee Rigby's head was 'sawed' until it 'almost detached'

Pictures of the car used to mow down Lee Rigby at 40mph and the damage caused by his body smashing into its windscreen were shown to the Old Bailey today.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, used the Vauxhall Tigra to hit the soldier as he crossed the road near his barracks on May 22 this year, the court heard.
Drummer Rigby, 25, was dragged into the road where Adebolajo tried to 'saw' off his head and Adebowale plunged knives up to six inches into his chest, the jury was told.
Jurors were also shown the weapons the prosecution say the suspects brought to Woolwich to hack him to death.

Shocking: This is the first photo of the Vauxhall Tigra that was used during the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby which was shown in court during the trial of Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, today

Evidence: This giant knife was found on the passenger seat of the vehicle that ploughed into Drummer Rigby at 40mph on May 22. It was not used in the killing

Kitchen knife: This knife was also found abandoned at the scene where the soldier was hacked to deat, but not used in the killing

Trial: The prosecution is setting out the case in the trial of two men accused of the brutal murder of Lee Rigby on May 22 this year

Jurors and the pathologist who examined the Fusilier broke down today as the Old Bailey heard the injuries the soldier suffered when he was killed.
He died of multiple knife wounds and was almost decapitated in the attack, the prosecution said.

 

But it is believed although the car did not kill him he may not have been conscious when the pair murdered him, the jury was told.
Pathologist Dr Simon Poole examined Fusilier Rigby's body for six hours during the post mortem on  May 23.
He said all the injuries were consistent with being hit by a car and attacked with bladed weapons and the cause of death was multiple incised wounds.

Poignant: The Army backpack carried by Drummer Rigby was also shown to the court on day four of the high profile murder trial of his alleged killers

Jurors were shown graphic representations of the numerous injuries Fusilier Rigby sustained in the fatal attack.

Moving: A juror sobbed and pathologist Dr Simon Poole was also moved as he described the injuries Drummer Rigby suffered to the court today.

They included fractures to the left side of his back, consistent with a single high-energy blunt force impact which could have been the impact with the car and stab wounds to the body, neck and head.
Dr Poole said: 'The most serious injuries to the chest were associated with extensive bleeding, injury to the lungs and the largest artery in the body the aetora.
'The injuries to the neck were very deep and affected the main structures in the neck - the windpipe, jugular veins, the nerves of the neck were all divided.
'They were deep incised wounds with associated damage to all the major structures in the front of the neck.
'They almost encircled the neck.'
There was a total of 14 injuries to the head and neck which had hit the bone or cartilage, the jury was told.
Dr Poole said some of the chest wounds were four inches deep and caused devastating internal injuries.
'Some of the wounds went deep into the chest cavity and caused internal injuries - there was damage, a cut, to the right lung which had collapsed,' he told the jury.
'The chest cavity had cuts to the bone, the second rib, and lungs on the right hand side.
'There are a pair of wounds on the right arm which could have been defensive wounds.'
The jury also saw videos of Adebolajo as he was interviewed by police after he was released from hospital after he was shot after charging armed officers.
He told them: 'It brings me little joy to approach anyone and slay them.'

On film: Adebolajo's interviews with police were also shown to the court, where he said: 'It brings me little joy to approach anyone and slay them'. He denies murder

Video evidence: Suspects Adobowale, left, and Adobelajo, right, watch the Adobelajo police interview

Artist's impression: Adobelajo is seen with an injured arm, blanket over his head while been interviewed by a psychiatrist with a Koran visible on table

During heated exchanges at Southwark Police Station, he attempted to justify the attack on Fusilier Rigby.
'Can you believe me, It gives me no little joy', said Adebolajo, clutching a copy of the Koran in his left hand.
'I am not a man who gets enjoyment in horror movies, seeing blood and gore across the camera lens.'
Adebolajo claimed he would only answer questions if they would help the family of Lee Rigby and the British people.

Alleged killer 'showed no signs of regret or remorse' in interview with psychiatrist 'but was not mentally ill'

Profile: A forensic psychiatrist told the Old Bailey that one of the men accused of murdering Lee Rigby, Michael Adebolajo (pictured), showed 'no regret or remorse for his actions'

One of the alleged killers of soldier Lee Rigby showed 'no regret or remorse' after the attack but was 'not mentally ill', a forensic psychiatrist told the Old Bailey today.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, is accused of hacking Fusilier Rigby to death with a meat cleaver and knives, along with Michael Adebowale, 22, on May 22 near Woolwich barracks.
The jury in their murder trial heard that in the days after the attack Adebolajo told forensic psychiatrist Tim McInnerney that his actions had been 'on the basis of his religious beliefs and because British soldiers were killing people in the Middle East'.
Adebolajo and Adebowale both deny murder, as well as charges of attempted murder of a police officer and conspiracy to murder a police officer.
Reading a statement, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow said: 'His actions had been on the basis of his religious beliefs, because British soldiers were killing Muslims in the Middle East.
'There were no signs of regret or remorse for his actions, and stated he presented no risk to civilians, medical staff or police, but was a continuing risk to the British military.'
Both Adebolajo and Adebowale were shot by police marksmen at the scene of the attack, on May 22, after the attack on Drummer Rigby.
The psychiatrist said: 'Mr Adebolajo presented with no signs or symptoms of mental disorder.
'He was polite and co-operative, and able to give a coherent account of himself.'

Trial: The Old Bailey heard Michael Adebolajo, left,, sketched with alleged accomplice Michael Adebowale, right, murdered because because 'British soldiers were killing Muslims in the Middle East'

Adebolajo asked for a copy of the Koran while in hospital and was offer the chance to speak to a visiting Imam.

The court heard he shunned blood transfusions on religious grounds, and told Mr McInerny he believed suicide and self-harm were contrary to Islamic Law.
Earlier, Richard Whittam QC showed jurors pictures of the scene in Woolwich including a forensic tent covering Drummer Rigby's body.
The court saw close up photos of a blood-stained machete, a wooden-handled knife, and a rust-coloured revolver recovered by officers.

Family: Lee Rigby's loved-ones, his step father Ian Rigby, fiancee Aimee West, sister Sara McClure and mother Lyn Rigby arrive at court

The jury was also shown the mangled wreck of the Vauxhall Tigra allegedly used by Adebolajo and Adebowale to run over the victim before crashing into a road sign.
Two knives found by police after the defendants had been shot matched packaging from a box of knives bought at Argos the day before the killing which was on the passenger seat in the car.
While in hospital being treated, Adebolajo restated his claim that the attack was carried out in retaliation for British troops fighting in Afghanistan, adding: 'These soldiers go to our land, kill our people - so an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.'
The attack on father-of-one Mr Rigby, a soldier in the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment, from Middleton, Rochdale, Lancs, took place in Artillery Place in Woolwich shortly after 2pm on May 22.
The trial continues.

Lee Rigby's alleged killer told police the soldier's head was 'sawed' until it 'almost detached'

One of the alleged killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby told detectives the soldier was struck in the neck until his head 'almost detached', a court has heard.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, is accused of hacking him to death with a meat cleaver and knives, along with Michael Adebowale, 22, on May 22 near Woolwich barracks in south east London.
During police interviews played to the jury at the Old Bailey, Abebolajo, covered by a blue blanket, said there was a 'war between the Muslims and the British people' and he was a 'soldier of Allah'.
Asked what happened to Fusilier Rigby, Adebolajo said: 'He was struck in the neck with a sharp implement and it was sawed until his head, you know, almost detached and may Allah forgive me if I acted in a way that is displeasing to him.'

Last seen: Drummer Rigby was seen here getting off a DLR train at Woolwich Arsenal Station, just before he was hacked to death on May 22

In an earlier interview, the murder suspect told officers the 'leaders' of Britain were 'wicked, corrupt, selfish and oppressive' and he was 'particularly disgusted by David Cameron, the Miliband brothers and what's-his-name, Nick Clegg'.
He added that people do not realise the 'wickedness and corruption' of former prime minister Tony Blair.
Occasionally revealing his face to the camera's view, Adebolajo said: 'It's for those people who have not yet understood the nature, the nature of the war that's ongoing and has been on going for some many years between the Muslims and the British people.'
He went on: 'The proof that this war between the people of Britain and the Muslims is that unfortunately it has to be interpreted in this way simply because your leaders, you have leaders who rule over you, unfortunately they rule over you in a very wicked, corrupt, selfish and oppressive manner.'
Fusilier Rigby's widow, Rebecca, left the court in tears as the interviews were played.
Adebolajo discussed politicians gathering in the House of Commons and paying tribute to soldiers killed in Afghanistan 'as a disgusting practice'.
He said Prime Minister Mr Cameron was 'trying to emulate the footsteps of Tony Blair as if he worships him'.
Adebolajo told the detectives that British soldiers were being sent to 'Muslim lands to commit mass murder'.
He said: 'The reality of Muslim land, it's full of men who, like myself, are soldiers of Allah.'
Earlier in the interview with Dc Dhaval Bhatt and Dc David Field, sitting alongside his solicitor, Adebolajo said it 'brings him little joy to approach anybody and slay them'.
He said: 'I'm British, I was born here.'
'The very hospital in which Allah sent me to be treated was the very hospital I was born in,' he said.
'Can you believe this?'
Adebolajo said he was ashamed to be called British because it was associated with the 'murder, pillaging and rape of innocent people'.
The court heard that Adebolajo sent Adebowale a text message on the morning of the alleged murder which read: '1 bruddas got d link for cheap thobes wana grab one wit man'.

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