The two men who allegedly killed a British soldier in broad daylight pleaded not guilty to murder on Friday.
28-year-old Michael Adebolajo and 22-year-old Michael Adebowale appeared in a London court via video on Friday, from the prison where they are currently housed, the Los Angeles Times reported. They both pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy to murder and the attempted murder charges brought against them for the May 22 assault. Their trial date has been scheduled for November.
The attack on the late drummer, machine-gunner and father shocked Brits for its brutality - one of the suspected murders, Adebolajo, was videotaped as he held a machete covered in blood while he yelled a political rant.
In the video, Adebolajo said that the attack was payback for British murder of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"You people will never be safe!" he shouted in the video. "Remove your government. They don't care about you."
At the time of the attack, both Adebolajo and Adebowale were armed, police reported. Authorities shot them as they came forward in a dangerous manner.
Following the killings, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the event prompted "some tough questions about what is happening in our country."
"It is as if, for some young people, there is a conveyor belt to radicalization that has poisoned their minds with sick and perverted ideas," he announced. "We need to dismantle this process at every stage - in schools, colleges, universities, on the Internet, in our prisons, wherever it is taking place."
Rigby, 25, worked in the military as a drummer and a machine gunner with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, the LA Times reported. He was on his way back to the barracks he lived in when he was hit by a car and then hacked repeatedly on the ground in the middle of the day.
