The second Muslim convert in the Woolwich killing of Lee Rigby has been identified as Michael Adebowale, a probation officer's son and radicalised as a teenager,a 22-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent.
a friend who claimed to have known Adebowale since he was 11 says the man he saw on television holding a knife and covered in blood 'was not the same person' he grew up with, The man, who chose to remain anonymous, said on ITV's Daybreak he remembered Adebowale converting to Islam at around 19, while he was at university. 'That wasn't the same person. He wasn't someone monstrous, that was not the same
person,' he said.
Details about the 22-year-old are still emerging, but it is understood he and his girlfriend, a fellow convert, were well known in south-east London for handing out extremist leaflets.
Adebowale was also known to be among the 3,000 Muslim extremists in Britain being watched by MI5 and is believed to have been radicalised while studying at university.
His mother, Tina, the niece of a university law professor in Benin, West Africa, was a housewife but she too dedicated herself to public duty by becoming a social worker. He has three younger siblings: a brother named Jeremiah and two sisters named Blessing and Christiana.
Michael was born into a Christiam family but embraced Islam around the age of 16. He attended the University in Greenwich, South-East London, and was once locked up for violent behavior.
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