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Saturday 25 May 2013

Woolwich murder suspect 'was offered job with MI5'... while the other is Micheal Adebowale probation officer's son

Via- Daily Mail
Michael Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London, was named last night as one of the suspects shot by police after the brutal murder of Lee Rigby
Suspect: Michael Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, south-east London, with a knife in his hand at the scene where Lee Rigby was stabbed to death

Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was approached by MI5 six months before the killing - and rejected an offer to work for them, a childhood friend of his has claimed.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight Adebolajo turned down the security service.
meanwhile, it was claimed yesterday that Woolwich suspect Michael Adebowale became radicalised after trying to escape gangland ‘trouble’.
London-born Adebowale was told to ‘disappear’ after he was caught up with a local gang known as the Woolwich Boys, and underwent a dramatic change of personality.
Once a fun-loving schoolboy who was described as ‘always smiling’ and chatted to neighbours about Jamie Oliver recipes, he began dressing in traditional Islamic dress and preaching a radical message of hate. 
Shock: A friend of Adebowale, 22, who has known him from the age of 11, said today that he converted to Islam when he was aged around 19
Shock: A friend of Adebowale, 22, who has known him from the age of 11, said today that he converted to Islam when he was aged around 19 
Adebowale gave up alcohol and began distributing radical leaflets near his mother’s home in Greenwich, south-east London.
Neighbours said his Nigerian-born mother, Juliet Obasuyi, was a probation officer and a ‘hard-working’ Christian woman who raised Adebowale alone after separating from his father.
Police raided her flat and a property linked to Adebowale’s father, Adeniyi Adebowale, in Holloway, North London.
Plain-clothes officers were seen carrying six plastic bags full of video cassettes and audio tapes from the Holloway flat.
The videos appeared to be labelled as football matches but one line of inquiry for police is likely to be whether Adebowale was interested in the type of jihadi videos watched by the July 2005 London bombers.
The four bombers were linked to an extreme bookshop in Leeds which distributed videos of terrorist acts, exhorting followers to emulate them.
Probe: Police leave the block of flats that Michael Adebowale is believed to have lived in holding envelopes with evidence
Probe: Police leave the block of flats that Michael Adebowale is believed to have lived in holding envelopes with evidence

Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale was born to Nigerian parents in Denmark Hill, South London, in May 1991. His father was then a student at Rutherford College in Canterbury, Kent, and the couple were said to have separated soon after the birth.
Adebowale attended Kidbrooke School in Greenwich, where former pupils said he was known as Toby or Tobi, an abbreviation of his second name Oluwatobi.
Luqman Ciise said on Twitter: ‘I knew him personally, he was normal, smiling all the time. His name was Toby. Still can’t believe this . . . How did he get radicalised?’ 
Adebowale was said to have converted to Islam at 19, while studying at Greenwich University, where he met the other Woolwich suspect, Michael Adebolajo.
Family friend Madeleine Edwards, 49, said Adebowale had been in ‘some serious gangland trouble’ in 2010 and that his mother had told her he ‘had to disappear for a while’.
She said Adebowale’s father was a ‘typical African gentleman’ but his mother had struggled to control her wayward son.
Detectives guard the fourth floor flat, which neighbours said they often heard Muslim songs from
Detectives guard the fourth floor flat, which neighbours said they often heard Muslim songs from and confirm that they saw both the suspects there

Adebowale was said to have left the Greenwich area for a year and returned about eight months ago, wearing traditional Islamic garb and a white skull cap, typically worn by Muslim men who have been on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: ‘Michael would always say hello and play with my children, but in the last year he stopped. He would just ignore us when we saw him at the lift.
Career: Drummer Rigby, 25, known as 'Riggers', was known as a brave soldier
Career: Drummer Rigby, 25, known as 'Riggers', was known as a brave soldier
‘He used to talk to me very enthusiastically about cooking and his recipes. He loved Jamie Oliver and had his books.
‘But more recently, he would just put his head down when he saw me. Even if I tried to talk to him he was very dismissive. I thought it was weird.
‘It was odd as his mother was a devout Christian. And it seemed like such a sudden change.’ 
In recent months Adebowale had begun seeing a woman who had converted to Islam two years ago and wore a headscarf to cover her hair.
Armed police raided her flat, also in Greenwich, and led away two women and a 15-year-old boy, who witnesses said was handcuffed. 
Two toddlers and a baby were also said to have been taken from the property.
Neighbours described hearing regular prayers and chanting from the flat.
A friend who has known Adebowale since he was 11 spoke of his shock at seeing the video of the Woolwich atrocity.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, told ITV’s Daybreak: ‘That wasn’t the same person. 
‘He wasn’t someone monstrous, that was not the same person.
‘He converted to Islam, preaching Islam, preaching peace. Not preaching anything bad or anything negative. Just literally the ways of Islam.
‘I would see him going to mosque and coming back from mosque. 
‘He was completely normal . . . He was one of us at school. Nothing evil about him at all.’ 
Rant: A man identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, brandishes a meat cleaver with bloodied hands near the scene of the killing
Rant: A man identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, brandishes a meat cleaver with bloodied hands near the scene of the killing
Rant: A man identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, brandishes a meat cleaver with bloodied hands near the scene of the killing
Angels of Woolwich: Gemini Donnelly-Martin, 20, and her mother Amanda (right) talk to one of the alleged attackers with blood on his hands. Meanwhile, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett (left) talks to the other suspect as Lee Rigby lies dead in the road
Angels of Woolwich: Gemini Donnelly-Martin, 20, and her mother Amanda (right) talk to one of the alleged attackers with blood on his hands. Meanwhile, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett (left) talks to the other suspect, identified as Michael Adebowale. Lee Rigby lies dead in the road
Weapon: This battered car was used to crush the soldier against a sign in front. The streak of blood in front shows how they dragged his body into the street
Weapon: This battered car was used to crush the soldier against a sign in front. The streak of blood in front shows how they dragged his body into the street

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