The murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed in southeast London on Wednesday, was not a “lone-wolf” attack, Britain’s home minister Theresa May said on Sunday as three more men were arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Ms May said that “the indications, all the indications would be” that the Woolwich murder was not a lone-wolf attack.
“This is an ongoing investigation and what we have to do is you know the police and the security service have to do their job. That’s exactly what people will be expecting them to do. So I can’t go into details of the case, as you yourself have said, for obvious reasons: it’s an ongoing investigation,” Ms May told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show.
The inquiry into the murder has 500 police officers working actively as the UK government drafted counter-terrorism officers from across the country.
Scotland Yard arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, from a residence and a 21-year-old from a street in southeast London.
The police had to taser the 28-year-old and 21-year-old, but they did not require hospital treatment.