Did MI5 help Lee Rigby killer escape Kenyan jail before he murdered soldier? MPs probe claims Adebolajo was sprung free after he was arrested for trying to join terror group

• Michael Adebolajo is serving life for killing Lee Rigby in Woolwich
• Intelligence Select Committee is investigating the soldier's murder
• MPs have demanded more information on the role of MI5
  
• Kenyan officials claim agency stopped them from jailing Adebolajo
• It has even been suggested that Adebolajo was an informant
  

By MARTIN BECKFORD and ROBERT VERKAIK

PUBLISHED: 21:10 GMT, 24 May 2014 | UPDATED: 11:55 GMT, 25 May 2014

The Security Services are facing demands from MPs to answer ‘deeply troubling’ claims that they left one of Lee Rigby’s murderers free to kill by helping him escape jail overseas.

MPs have been told by senior Kenyan officials they wanted to lock up Michael Adebolajo for terrorism offences when he was caught trying to join a notorious Islamist group.

But it is claimed that MI5 intervened and insisted Adebolajo be set free. 

He was allowed to return to Britain, and last year he mowed down and hacked to death the soldier outside Army barracks in Woolwich, South-East London.

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