Police charge another in UK

LONDON — British police charged a second suspect Saturday with the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street, as rightwing and antifascist groups both demonstrated in response to a slaying that has heightened religious tensions in Britain.

The Metropolitan Police said Michael Adebolajo, 28, was charged with the murder of Lee Rigby. Adebolajo also is accused of attempting to murder two police officers, and possession of a firearm.

Adebolajo was released from a hospital Friday after treatment for injuries suffered when he was shot by police in the attack near an army barracks in southeast London. Police said Adebolajo would make his first court appearance Monday.

Another man, Michael Adebowale, 22, also has been charged with murdering Rigby. Adebowale also spent several days in a hospital being treated for gunshot wounds.

The two men were recorded in photographs and on video after the attack on the soldier, bloodied and appearing to espouse Islamic extremism.

Police, politicians and activists have reported a rise in anti-Muslim incidents since Rigby’s slaying. But demonstrations by right-wing groups Saturday drew low numbers.

Police kept about 150 British National Party supporters carrying antiIslam placards apart from a larger group of anti-racist demonstrators outside Parliament after the two sides traded insults and occasional blows.