The family of one of the Woolwich murder suspects has apologised
over the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby.
In a statement, relatives of 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo expressed their "profound shame and distress" over the "senseless killing" and sent their "heartfelt condolences" to the soldier's family.
They added there was no place for violence in the name of religion.
It came as another suspect, understood to be 22-year-old Michael Adebowale from Greenwich, was discharged from hospital.
He was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Drummer Rigby on May 22 and then further arrested this afternoon on suspicion of the attempted murder of a police officer.
He will now be interviewed by detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command.
Adebowale and Adebolajo have been recovering in hospital after they were both shot by armed police in the immediate aftermath of Drummer Rigby's murder.
The young soldier was hacked to death near Woolwich barracks in south east London last Wednesday.
Detectives have since arrested 10 people.
A 50-year-old man was held in Welling, south east London, on Monday. He was bailed on Tuesday night pending further enquiries.
A 22-year-old man was arrested in Highbury, north London, on Sunday, and three men detained on Saturday over the killing have all been released on bail along with a fifth man, aged 29.
Two women, aged 29 and 31, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but later released without charge.
In the wake of the attack, it emerged that Adebolajo and Adebowale were both known to MI5.
The murder has sparked a flurry of activity by far-right group the English Defence League (EDL). Forces charity Help for Heroes has banned donations from thegroup, whose members chanted Drummer Rigby's name during a protest outside Downing Street on Monday.
Meanwhile, military authorities announced that the 25-year-old soldier's name would be added to Britain's Armed Forces Memorial.
It will be added by mid-2014 to the list of more than 16,000 names at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, which honours troops killed on duty or as a result of terrorist action.
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