'Prevent failed my family' says daughter of murdered MP

THE daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess said he was "catastrophically" failed by the Government's Prevent programme, as she called for a full inquest into his death.

The veteran MP, 69, was stabbed to death by Ali Harbi Ali at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex in October 2021.

Katie Amess, 39, said she was told Ali, 28, had been reported to Prevent in 2014, but after one meeting his case was not followed up by the anti-radicalisation programme "due to an admin error" She told the Sunday Times: "He was reported. People were trying to help us and so why was he allowed to just go on and do whatever he wanted for seven years? What happened to my dad should not have been an admin error."

Sir David, a father of five, had been holding a surgery in his Southend West constituency when he was attacked by Ali, who was sentenced in 2022 to a whole-life prison term for the murder.