Threats before MP's murder 'not linked' to attack - police

Threatening phone calls made to the son of Sir David Amess the evening before the MP's murder were "not linked in any way" to the attack, police have said.

- David Batty

The Conservative MP's daughter, the actor Katherine Amess, has called for a full inquest into her father's death, questioning why the police did not protect his constituency surgery after the threats.

She told Radio 4's Today programme that the night before the murder, her brother received a phone call saying their "father was going to be killed", which he immediately reported to the police.

"Subsequently the police say they arrested people who made the phone call and it was not related but that's just irrelevant to us because they should have gone still," she told the programme yesterday.