Cardinal Vincent Nicholas has led tributes to Sir David Amess, a Catholic MP murdered at his constituency surgery in Essex in a suspected terrorist attack.
The Conservative MP for Southend West was knifed about a dozen times by a man who sprinted into Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea shortly after 12 noon on Friday.
Police declared the murder to be a terrorist incident and have arrested a 25-year-old British Muslim of Somali descent on suspicion of murder.
According to the Daily Mail, local priest Fr Jeffrey Woolnough arrived at the cordon to present the final sacraments of the Church to Sir David but was refused access.
