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Adebolajo, 29, is the son of Anthony and Ibitoye Adebolajo, Nigerian immigrants who settled in Romford, where Michael and his three siblings were born. During the trial, he told the court how his mother taught him to pray but that a Jehovah Witness named only as fired his interest in religion.
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It was around this time that Adebolajo began showing an interest in Islam.
In an attempt to keep him out of trouble, his parents moved the family from Romford to a smart detached house in Saxilby, near Lincoln, the very heart of middle England. But the move did not succeed in turning Adebolajo away from radical Islam. He moved back to London and studied at Greenwich University.
He converted to Islam in 2003 and was radicalised by Bakri Mohammed, the so called Ayatollah who was thrown out of Britain when he was leader of the now banned extremist group Al Muhajiroun. Adebolajo was also taken under the wing of Bakri lieutenant, Anjem Choudhry.
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For Adebowale, who was born in Eltham, south east London and attended Kidbrooke School in Greenwich, the first steps down the road to extremism came at the age of Canada Goose online just 10. Before that he was smiling all the time, said Luqman Ciise, one of his schoolmates.
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Adebowale saw the images of the 9/11 attacks on television and would later tell psychiatrists he had been by society from an early age.
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