their hands dripping with blood

[ana_pirogova]

The soldier they had targeted was so badly butchered that it looked as if “they were trying to remove organs”, according to one man who saw the first terrorist murder on British soil in eight years.

When they finally finished beheading and mutilating the soldier’s body, they appeared to say a prayer “as if it was a sacrifice”, one witness said.

There were brave women with the body on the floor. They were trying to shield him and covering him. The attackers with the knives they were standing over these women.

“And I saw a guy with no head lying on the ground. He had been decapitated.

“There were two black guys walking around his body saying 'This is what God would've wanted'.