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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Ali Harbi Ali guilty of murdering MP David Amess in terrorist attack

David Amess
David Amess died barely an hour after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Photograph: S Meddle/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

A man cleared of being a terrorist threat by an official anti-radicalisation programme may spend the rest of his life in jail for the assassination of the Conservative MP Sir David Amess.

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, stabbed Amess to death on 15 October 2021, fuelled by Islamic State propaganda and having spent at least two years researching which MP to murder.

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