Lee Rigby's killer demands £100,000 compensation after claiming he was 'injured' by prison officers

One of Lee Rigby’s killers is demanding up to £100,000 of taxpayers’ money after being injured by prison officers.

The dead soldier’s mother has called the ‘gut-wrenching’ bid for compensation an attempt to get ‘blood money’.

Michael Adebolajo, who ran down and then butchered Fusilier Lee Rigby in broad daylight in a south London street in May 2013, wants the money after losing two teeth in an incident where prison staff tried to restrain him.

He has lodged court papers claiming he was left with a ‘psychiatric injury.

Adebolajo, is seeking £25,000 in compensation, claiming to have suffered ‘distress, loss and damage’, following the incident which happened while he was on remand at London’s top-security Belmarsh jail.

But the bill for taxpayers could be swollen by another £75,000 in legal costs, as his claim has now been proceeding for two years.

A writ has now been lodged with the High Court.

The writ claims that the 32-year-old was injured after being escorted back to his cell.

After apparently confronting officers, Adebolajo claims he was ‘verbally abused’ before he was smashed into bars of his cell windows, losing his teeth.

He also claims he was ‘stamped on’ in an ‘unreasonable, unjustified and excessive’ assault.

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Lee Rigby’s horrified mother, Lyn, told the Sun newspaper: ‘This is gut-wrenching for me, my family and Lee’s ­memory. And still he holds his hand out for blood money.

‘He deserves not a penny from the state. The only thing he deserves is to die in jail.

‘He lost a few teeth because he was violent and brought under control. Lee lost his life and I lost my son at his hands.’

Rigby was killed in May 2013, in a murder which shocked the nation.

The soldier was off-duty when he was attacked, close to the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.

He was run over by Adebolajo and his accomplice Michael Adebowale.

They then dragged his body into the road and hacked him to death.

The radicalised pair told passers-by they had killed Rigby to avenge the deaths of Muslims by British armed forces.

Both Adebolajo and Adebowale were found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.