The murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by a pair of psychopaths invoking the name of Islam has galvanised Britain and gained global media attention, but what about the other 176 or so people who were murdered by Muslim psychopaths last week?

Drummer Rigby was white, English and a soldier, so the gory, bizarre and provocative manner of his death garnered headlines around the world, but hundreds of families, mostly Muslim, are also in mourning because of the actions of psychopaths using Islam to justify their bloodlust.

One of the men charged with the murder of Rigby, Michael Adebolajo, 28, was a thug long before he gravitated to Muslim fundamentalism. At high school he cultivated a gangsta persona, got into drugs, then armed robbery, and became known for putting a knife to people's throats and stealing their phones and money.

He came to the attention of the police Special Branch and the MI5 security agency in 2007 after becoming an activist follower of Muslim hate clerics. But there are so many radicalised Muslims in Britain that the security agencies cannot track them all, and they let him slide. Britain's intelligence service has not been exempt from the government's austerity drive, prompted by massive public debt.