MOSCOW, November 25 (Sputnik) — UK Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to introduce changes to the work of British intelligence services in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby's brutal killing in London last year, but said secret services could not have prevented his murder.
"I don't want anyone to be in any doubt that there are lessons to be learned and things that need to change," Cameron told the British parliament on Tuesday.
Cameron added that over the next two years the UK will provide an additional 130 million of pounds (over $203 million) to its security services in order to enhance the "ability to monitor and disrupt these 'self-starting' terrorists."
"The Committee does not consider that, given what the agencies knew at the time, they were in a position to prevent the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby," the prime minister stressed.
"It is greatly to the agencies' credit that they have protected the UK from a number of terrorist plots in recent years… at least four serious plots have been foiled this year alone," he said.
In 2013, two young men ran British soldier Lee Rigby down with a car and then hacked him to death on a London street in broad daylight. Although one of the attackers had links with al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, the incident did not appear to have been planned in advance.
