LONDON - The Home Secretary has rejected calls from the family of Sir David Amess MP for a public inquiry into his murder.
In a letter addressed to Sir David’s widow Lady (Julia) Amess and his daughter Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was "hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond" killer Ali Harbi Ali's trial and recently published Prevent learning review.
Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West and a Catholic father of five, was stabbed to death by Ali, a fanatical adherent of the so-called Islamic State, at a constituency surgery on 15 October 2021. Ali was sentenced to a whole-life order in 2022.
