A
Nigerian man sentenced to death for killing a soldier has sparked
outrage in the United Kingdom after he was transfered back to the
hospital.
Michael Adebowale
Nigerian man Michael Adebowale, 25 who brutally murdered a soldier
in Woolwich in May 2013 alongside his friends is set to cost taxpayers
in Britain £250,000 per year after justice chiefs agreed to transfer him
back to Broadmoor Hospital.
According to Dailymail,
the revelation has sparked outrage. Adebowale who was jailed for life
for killing the soldier identified as Lee Rigby in Woolwich in May 2013,
and was initially sent to Broadmoor before being sent to HMP Wakefield
in 2015 when he was ruled to be sane.
But it is understood he has now returned to the high security
psychiatric hospital in Berkshire after refusing to comply with medical
treatment at the prison. The cost of treating a patient at Broadmoor is
around five times as much as the £50,000 spent on keeping a prisoner at a
Category A jail.
According to the Sun, Mr Rigby's mother Lyn, 50, is furious at the
move after previously describing herself as 'delighted' when the killer
was transferred to Wakefield.
She told the paper: 'I get the impression this whole situation
is going to yo-yo back and forth for years because the authorities
clearly don't know how to deal with him.
'I need to be reassured that the right punishment is being handed down to the man who took my son's life.
'I can't live with the thought he is slipping through a loophole to get out of proper jail time for what he did to my boy.'
Broadmoor is said to have 'gentler surroundings' than a prison and
has been described as an 'easier life' for offenders. Adebowale was
jailed alongside Michael Adebolajo, 32, for murdering Mr Lee with a meat
cleaver and knives near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south
east London, in May 2013.
They knocked Mr Rigby down in a car as he walked towards the
barracks and then hacked him to death. Adebolajo was given a whole life
order for the crime while Adebowale was ordered to serve at least 45
years.
Adebolajo has previously complained about being segregated from
other Muslim prisoners. He was moved from HMP Belmarsh in Thamesmead,
south east London, to Frankland in County Durham over fears that he was
trying to radicalise other inmates.
Adebolajo and Adebowale were raised as Christians but later described as British Muslim converts at their trial.
Adebowale had openly discussed murdering a soldier on Facebook, but
that information had not been passed to the intelligence services.
Adebolajo issued a series of threats to the West after the bloody murder
took place. A shocking video of him was taken on a mobile phone while
he ranted with a machete in his hand.
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