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'British soldier' butchered in suspected Islamist attack

Agence France-PresseMay 22, 2013 19:30
A man believed to be a British soldier was brutally murdered by suspected Islamists near a London barracks on Wednesday in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be terror-related. Cameron called the attack "appalling", and said: "There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident." Eyewitnesses described how two men attacked a man in the street in broad daylight with knives and a gun and then remained at the scene, asking passers-by to photograph and film them.

Jail for Briton who gave gun to riots death man

February 26, 2013 12:16
A drug dealer who supplied a gun to the man whose shooting by police sparked riots which ripped through English cities in 2011 was jailed for 11 years on Tuesday. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, 30, was found guilty at London's Old Bailey court in January of giving Mark Duggan the gun just minutes before he was shot dead by police. The death of 29-year-old Duggan in the north London district of Tottenham on August 4, 2011 led to local protests amid rumours that he was unarmed.

Briton guilty of giving gun to riots death man

January 31, 2013 11:30
A man was found guilty on Thursday of supplying a gun to the victim of a fatal shooting by police in 2011 that sparked Britain's worst riots in a generation. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster was convicted of passing the weapon to Mark Duggan, 29, just 15 minutes before Duggan was shot in the chest in Tottenham, a deprived area of north London. Local protests against Duggan's death amid rumours that he was unarmed swiftly escalated into a wave of violence across London and other major English cities that left five people dead.
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