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Rigby trial: 'No Adebowale evidence' Lee Rigby trial: 'No Adebowale evidence'
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The jury at the Lee Rigby murder trial has been told Michael Adebowale will not give or call any evidence in his defence.The jury at the Lee Rigby murder trial has been told Michael Adebowale will not give or call any evidence in his defence.
Mr Justice Sweeney told jury they were not to draw adverse inferences about his decision not to go into the witness box. The judge said it should not draw adverse inferences about his decision not to appear in the witness box.
Mr Adebowale's counsel told court he was calling no evidence in his client's defence. The prosecution says the 22-year-old and Michael Adebolajo, 28 - who both deny murder - killed Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, on 22 May.
The trial resumes next week with closing speeches. The Old Bailey trial resumes next week with closing speeches.
Abbas Lakha QC, for Mr Adebowale, told the court that he was calling no evidence for his client.
Mr Justice Sweeney told the jurors: "The second defendant has chosen neither to give nor to call any evidence.
"May I direct you straight away that you are not to draw any inference adverse to him from the fact that he has chosen not to give evidence. As I told you at the outset, the law is for me and I give directions about it that you must follow."
The judge said that the trial was moving into its final phases with closing speeches, but he had to deal with further legal matters before the jurors would hear them.
The two men are both also accused of attempting to murder a police officer and conspiracy to murder a police officer.
The men rammed Fusilier Rigby with a car outside the barracks before attacking him with knives.