Fusilier Rigby, 25, left, was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22, bottom right, and Michael Adebolajo, 29, top right, who ambushed him outside his barracks in Woolwich, South East London on May 22 last year.
Rebecca Rigby, inset, said in her victim impact statement: 'My son (Jack) will grow up and see images of his father that no son should have to endure'. She spoke out after her husband's family arrived at the Old Bailey wearing matching t-shirts (centre left to right, step-father Ian Rigby, mother Lyn Rigby and sisters Sara McClure and Chelsea Rigby). In December the two fanatics were found guilty of butchering the father-of-one but their sentencing was delayed until today after Strasbourg judges tried to end whole-life tariffs. But last week senior British judges defied the European Court of Human Rights. Today Adebolajo's QC told the court that sentencing his client to life without parole would make him a 'martyr', while Adebowale's legal team said a whole-life term would be 'inhuman' for a man so young. They will be sentenced after 4.30pm.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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