Exactly one year on from this most incredible and brutal killing of Lee Rigby it still shakes me to the core and every time I walk from the shop carrying my carrier bag or laptop bag I think of Lee. I look around me and think that anyone can simply walk up to you and do such a thing that happened to him. I remember that day so well, in fact, it stood out like the “horrendous” events in New York. Innocent people going about their day never in their wildest dreams thinking that something like this could ever happen in our world, let alone to themselves. You try to put it to the back of your mind, of course, and you do because the other problems continue in your own life, but that will not apply to Lee’s family.

If I remember rightly, I think the Prime Minister took his family on holiday that same week after hearing of such a catastrophe, although he obviously played the role of Prime Minister first….

This was most obviously something the PM never took in, even though he replied in the kind of fashion that you would expect and like so many other, similar events that happen they could be avoided. I mention earlier that my son contacted the police about the problems surrounding his home, which involved drug and those that take them, after he had himself been attacked. It fell on death ears to those that are well paid to police the area and try to keep it as safe as possible. Only three weeks after his report was ignored his neighbor opposite him, who I knew and talked to on a regular basis, was killed in the same way as Rigby, only she never had her head severed from her body.