Murder of David Amess
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Murder of David Amess
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On 15 October 2021, Sir David Amess, a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Southend West, was fatally stabbed at a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. His killer was Ali Harbi Ali, a British Islamic State sympathiser, who was arrested at the scene. In April 2022, Ali was convicted of murder and the preparation of terrorist acts, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
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2021 killing of a UK member of parliament
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Amess
date created:
2021-10-15T13:00:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:04:54Z
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