"Sounds like pretty much nobody knows much of what actually went on or why."

Au contraire dear Greg there were multiple witnesses and one of the killers himself spoke on video:

A witness identified as James told local radio station LBC that he saw two suspects attack the young victim with knives, including a meat cleaver.

"They were hacking at this poor guy, literally," he told the station. "They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him."

Multiple witnesses said the victim was wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the veterans charity Help for Heroes.

The attack took place less than a mile from a military barracks, in Woolwich, southeast London.

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May told ITV News she had been briefed by the Director General of the Security Service MI5 on what she called a "sickening and barbaric" attack.

One eyewitness posted on Twitter that he had seen the victim "with his head chopped off" but this was not confirmed by any police or government officials.

Local resident Graham Wilders told the BBC he saw a man pulling out a handgun. He said:

    "As I drove around the corner I see the car on the pavement. I thought there's been an accident … there was two people leaning over and I thought they were trying to resuscitate him, there was a bloke against the wall.

    "Next minute ... another bloke has come along and told me they were actually stabbing him, apparently they actually run the car into him and knocked him down before they done anything.

    "And then next minute there was a bloke come along in a silver little car and he got out and he shouted out to everyone 'someone phone the police.' So we phone the police. So next minute what happened he actually pulled a handgun out."

    "Next minute I see the silver car shoot off."



The man holding the cleaver was videotaped by a bystander saying: "By Allah we swear by the almighty Allah and we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone."

"Leave our lands and we can all live in peace, that's all I have to say."