Court shown CCTV and phone-camera footage of the police response to killing of British soldier Lee Rigby

 blood on his hands and holding a meat cleaver has been
 shown to the jury.Source: Supplied

BRUTAL CCTV footage of the moment two men confronted police after running down and then cutting up British soldier Lee Rigby has been revealed in court.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are shown wielding machetes and a gun after attacking the off-duty Fusilier drummer.

The footage shows Adebolajo charging at a police car with machete raised moments after it came to a halt. A police officer in the back seat gunned him down as he approached.

Adebowale is then seen raising a gun towards officers. Shot in the leg and stomach, he only dropped the gun after being shot in the hand - and having his thumb blown off.

The police officers, who were not identified, told the jury how they feared for their lives after arriving at the bloody scene.

Adebolajo lays on the ground, wounded, as Abedowale pulls a gun on police, right. Source: Supplied

"He almost instantly broke into a sprint and I realised we were being attacked. We had very little time to deal with the threat. He was coming at us," an officer said.

"The second he (Adebolajo) started sprinting at us still in possession of that knife I made the decision to fire and until he fell away from the vehicle I was still in the frame of mind and I needed to take that decisive action to stop him."

Police also described the shooting of Adebowale.

"I've still got a distinct image in my mind of (Adebowale) holding a black revolver in his hand," he told the Old Bailey. "The next two shots shot his thumb off. The hand holding the weapon".

This is a court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of the two men accused of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, on the left is Michael Adebolajo, and Michael Adebowale, during their trial at the Old Bailey in central London. (AP Photo/PA, Elizabeth Cook) Source: AP

The testimony came on a day where several witnesses explained what they saw of the murder of the off-duty British soldier on a London street.

All described how the two suspects repeatedly stabbed the victim with knives and a meat cleaver in a frenzied attack.

Both British-born suspects, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, deny the charge of murder.

One witness, Gill Hucks, said she saw two men taking turns to stab 25-year-old Rigby.

``What I saw then I can only describe as a horrific, frenzied attack on the man on the floor by two knife-wielding crazy men,'' she said in a statement, read out by prosecutor Richard Whittam.

Another witness, Thomas Seymour, said he saw one suspect stab at the soldier's torso ``10 or 20 times''.

Relatives of murdered fusilier Lee Rigby; Stepfather Ian Rigby, mother Lyn Rigby, sister Sara McLure and fiancee Aimee West arrive at the Old Bailey.(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images

He said he saw the other suspect attack the victim's head and believed he was trying to decapitate Rigby.

The soldier's widow left the court in tears as the accounts were read out in London's Central Criminal Court.

Earlier, Whittam told the jury that Adebolajo and Adebowale first ran Rigby over with a car, then dragged his motionless body out to the middle of the road so that others could see.

Witness Saraj Miah said in a statement that he tried to stop the men, but was ignored.

``I thought that the two black men with knives were going to kill him. I told them not to kill him. They did not listen to me,'' his statement read.

Some details of the case could not be released due to imposed reporting restrictions.

The defence case is expected in the coming weeks.