HEARTBROKEN relatives of murdered soldier Lee Rigby laid bare their continuing anguish, a year after he was brutally killed in the street by two fanatics.

Fusilier Rigby's murder sparked shock across Britain after he was run over with a car and then hacked to death by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich, south-east London, on May 22 last year.

The soldier's widow, Rebecca Rigby, broke down as she visited the scene of the 25-year-old's death to lay two wreaths in his memory - one a tribute from his young son Jack, in the shape of a red football shirt marked "Dad 1". The other was a heart-shaped wreath of white flowers decorated with red roses.

His mother, Lyn, said she would never be able to forgive her son's two killers.

She told a newspaper that she wakes up in cold sweats thinking about her son's death. "No parent should ever have to bury a child but the nature of Lee's death was so violent that I can barely sleep at night, haunted by the images of my child lying bloodied and fatally wounded on the street."

The grieving mother sent a touching message, called "Once a Fusilier, Always a Fusilier" to be read at a memorial event for her son, held outside Woolwich Barracks where he was stationed.