Soldier Lee Rigby’s killers were handed more than £200,000 in taxpayer-funded financial support to pay their legal bills.
Fusilier Rigby’s murder sparked shock across the country after he was mowed down with a car and then hacked to death by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich, south-east London, on May 22 last year.
A Freedom of Information request by the Sun newspaper revealed that the extremists received a combined £212,613.32 in legal aid to cover solicitors and advocates fees and other disbursements.