Police arrest 2 more in British soldier’s murder

British police made two further arrests on May 23, and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Police searched 5 properties in London and one in a village in eastern England, and announced the arrests of a man and a woman, both aged 29, for conspiracy to murder. Prime Minister David Cameron appealed for calm after 25-year-old Lee Rigby was butchered outside a London army barracks, while an extra 1,200 officers were deployed on the capital’s streets in a bid to reassure the public. The intelligence agencies came under scrutiny after it emerged that the two murder suspects, who were injured in police gunfire at the scene, had been known to the security services.

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