A man in his twenties has been stabbed in
broad daylight less than 300 metres from where
soldier Lee Rigby was executed on Wednesday
afternoon.
Police treated him at the scene in central
Woolwich but Scotland Yard said the violent
assault is not linked to the terror attack last
week.
The person was stabbed at 4pm in Wellington
Street – across the road from where Lee Rigby
was murdered – and he is not thought to have
suffered life-threatening injuries.
Hours earlier the family of murdered British
soldier Lee Rigby paid an emotional visit to the
scene where he was hacked to death close to
Woolwich Barracks.
A group of young soldiers also arrived to pay
their respects to Drummer Rigby, solemnly
saluting the site where he met his death.
Many of the young men carried red and white
hackles, famously worn by the Royal Regiment
of Fusiliers, of which Drummer Rigby was a
treasured member.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘The
victim is a man in his mid 20s. His injuries are
not thought to be life threatening. He will be
taken to hospital.
‘This incident happened geographically very
close to where Lee Rigby died, but we do not
believe what happened is linked to Lee’s
murder or any issues associated with it.’
There have been no arrests.
Initially today’s stabbing horrified people as it
was feared the attack may be linked to the
killing, which has shocked the world.
The streets wee filled with people who came to
pay their respects.
Lee Rigby was hacked to death by two attackers
in the same street on Wednesday, also in broad
daylight.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, and his alleged
accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, are
believed to have run down the off-duty British
soldier with a Vauxhall Tigra as he walked back
to the Woolwich Barracks, crushing his body
against a road sign.
Last respects: Soldiers salute murdered British
soldier Lee Rigby at the site where he met his
death last week.
Round of applause: Soldiers gave a show of
hands as they viewed the ever-increasing
volume of floral tributes to Drummer Lee
Rigby, and placed further flowers at the site
where he died
Tribute: Many of the soldiers carried red and
white hackles, which are famously worn by
members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Witnesses said the terror suspects then ‘hacked
and chopped’ at his body like ‘crazed animals’,
before dragging his corpse into the middle of
the road leaving a trail of blood.
As they apparently tried to decapitate him they
were chanting: ‘this is what God would have
wanted’.
A blood-soaked man believed to be Adebolajo,
who was still holding a number of weapons in
his red-stained hands, then ranted on camera in
a clear London accent: ‘You people will never
be safe. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’
In memory: Members of the armed forces place
floral tributes in Woolwich, south east London
at the site where Drummer Lee Rigby died
England’s finest: A cross of St George – the
patron saint of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers –
is draped over the floral tributes
Incident: The victim was attacked just 300
metres from where Lee Rigby was murdered on
Wednesday (pictured today)
Suspects: Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael
Adebowale, 22, remain under arrest after being
shot by armed police on Wednesday
Proud: Lee Rigby with (left to right), his wife
Rebecca Rigby, sisters Sara McClure and
Chelsea Rigby, Lee Rigby and his mother and
stepfather, Lyn and Ian Rigby
Proud: Drummer Lee Rigby, circled, with his
army colleagues in 2010 in a training exercise at
Hounslow Barracks
Picture: This image was the first to emerge on
Twitter, showing people close to the soldier’s
dead body while police hang over the men they
have just shot, the same street as today’s
stabbing
Within 20 minutes armed officers arrived and
the fundamentalists charged at them wielding
firearms, knives and a machete.
Police opened fire, taking the pair down with
up to eight bullets. The suspects remain under
armed guard in two separate London hospitals.
Four days after he died his bereft family arrived
at the spot where he died and struggled to cope
with what they saw.
Drummer Rigby’s mother Lyn, stepfather Ian
and estranged wife Rebecca looked at the
thousands of tributes in Woolwich and left a
balloon from his two-year-old son Jack saying
‘Dad in a million’.
The relatives arrived at the place where he was
killed at 12.40pm. They hugged and comforted
each other before crossing the road to look at
the spot where he was murdered on
Wednesday.
One clutched a teddy bear, while others held
baskets of flowers which they left at the scene.
They then spent a few moments in reflection,
still clutching each other.

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