A witness to the killing of Lee Rigby burst into tears in court as she described how his two attackers "jabbed" knives into the soldier's motionless body before posing for pictures.
Tina Nimmo sobbed in the witness box of the Old Bailey on Tuesday morning as she told how Rigby's attackers looked "proud" after mutilating the soldier in a south London street.
Asked by the prosecutor, Richard Whittam QC, to describe the two attackers after they had attacked the 25-year-old, Nimmo said: "Very proud of what they had in their hands", referring to their meat cleaver, knives and gun.
"They were just holding their weapons up," she said.
Earlier the court heard evidence from Nimmo's daughter, Michelle, who described how the alleged assailants were posing for pictures at the scene.
"They looked very proud of what they had done. My mother approached the victim but the man with the gun waved it in a threatening manner so she moved back," she said in a statement read to court.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are accused of murdering Rigby, a drummer and machine-gunner in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, as he walked back to Woolwich military barracks.
Nimmo told the jury that she had attempted to direct traffic away from Rigby's lifeless body, which had been dragged into the middle of the road. She said: "A busload of people came off and it made it more difficult to control. I was saying, 'Stand back, he's got a gun' and people kept coming."
Asked by Whittam what the two attackers were doing at this point, Nimmo said: "They were just holding their weapons up." Asked whether she was shouting at the men, Nimmo sobbed and said: "I was, yes. I wanted them to stop."
Whittam tried to comfort Nimmo about what he described as "obviously a very shocking event". She replied: "It was, yes."
Clutching a tissue in her right hand, Nimmo raised her arms above her head and brought them down sharply to demonstrate how two men hacked at Rigby's body.
Adebolajo and Adebowale deny murder. The trial continues.
