[nomadking]

Starts off as a Christian, is described as 'just a lovely, lovely guy'

There was no mistaking Michael Adebolajo, their 'bright and witty' classmate from a devoutly Christian family.
They remembered his smile, him studying hard, taking the bus to school and playing football with his mates.

Then what happens:-

He descended into a world where he was consumed with jihadism and later joined several Islamist groups banned in Britain because they are considered so extreme.
Radicalised by the likes of hate preacher Anjem Choudary, he fell into petty crime. Alarmed by the changes they saw in their son, his parents moved the family to Lincolnshire to make a fresh start.
But it was too little, too late, to save their first-born from an ugly descent.

Yep, no link to Islam is here?