A jury has been shown video footage of the man accused of murdering the Conservative MP David Amess clutching a knife and being detained by unarmed police and later saying the offence he was arrested for was “terror” related. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, denies the murder of Amess, 69, as he held a constituency surgery in a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in October 2021. The jury at the Old Bailey were...
David Amess funeral: Family call for country to ‘set hatred aside and work together’ as Southend mourns MP
Sir David Amess’s family called for the country to “set aside hatred and work together” as mourners gathered in Southend to pay their respects to the late MP. A funeral service took place at St Mary’s Church in Prittlewell followed by a procession through the streets of his Southend West constituency. The father-of-five was stabbed to death while holding a constituency surgery at Belfairs...