A statue of murdered Catholic politician Sir David Amess has been unveiled his former constituency town of Southend.
Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West, Essex, was stabbed to death while holding a surgery for constituents in Leigh-on-Sea in October 2021.
Ali Harbi Ali, a British Muslim of Somali origin, was in 2022 convicted of murdering the 69-year-old father of five and was given a whole life sentence by an Old Bailey judge.
The popular backbench politicians has now been honoured with a life-size statue on a grass bank by Chalkwell Esplanade where he appears to be looking out over the estuary.
