Mother of the Bristish soldier killer granted an interview to Mail, explaning how shocked and cannot understand why her son mudered Fusilier Lee Rigby. Miss Obasuyi revealed that she had left her job and now plans to go back to Nigeria, where she was born.
While speaking exclusively to the Mail, Juliet Obasuyi wept as she said: ‘I lost my son. He’s not dead, he’s still alive, but I lost him to the Jihad people.’
The Christian church chorister also revealed that she had confronted the imams her son visited because she was worried about his behaviour, but they simply told her he was a ‘good boy’.
‘I don’t know the other boy, but my son wasn’t bad,’ she said. ‘My son was in the background. He was brainwashed by the older one.
She said her son had been studying creative writing at Birkbeck University in London, and wanted to write books on morals for Muslim children.
Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale was born to Nigerian parents in Denmark Hill, South London, in May 1991, and has one older half-sister Elizabeth Odunubi, who works in media.
His parents separated soon after his birth and he attended Sherington Primary School in Charlton – where actor Daniel Day Lewis and musician Jools Holland were educated. He then attended Kidbrooke School in Greenwich, where he was known as Toby or Tobi, an abbreviation of his second name Oluwatobi.
Schoolfriends described him as fun-loving and ‘always smiling’ while neighbours said he chatted about Jamie Oliver recipes after the chef filmed his famous School Dinners series at the school.
But he started to be bullied at school and responded by joining a notorious local gang known as the Woolwich Boys.
He began smoking skunk cannabis, drug dealing and looking after a crack den. The gang is dominated by Muslim youths of Somali origin and has been linked to extremism.
When he was 16, he was attacked by crack addict Lee James, a professional bare-knuckle fighter. He was stabbed twice and his friend Faridon Alizada was killed in front of him.
Adebowale was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and claimed he saw ‘jinns’ or evil spirits. He claimed they were tormenting him for having once read the Bible and he began hearing voices in his head. Convicted of drug dealing in 2009, he eventually served six months in young offenders institutions.
The following year he met Adebolajo while studying at Greenwich University, and became fully committed to radical Islam He gave up alcohol, began distributing extremist leaflets near his mother’s home and started learning Arabic so he could write books for Muslim children
A family friend said Adebowale’s father is thought to have worked for the Nigerian High Commission in London, but his mother struggled to control her wayward son.
Adebolajo and Adebowale, could face whole-life jail terms if Appeal Court judges back the use of the new sentences in a key ruling on January 24.
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