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Evening Standard
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Politics
Josh Payne

Amess family ‘deeply hurt’ after Home Secretary letter following Prevent review

Sir David Amess was murdered in October 2021 (Chris McAndrew/PA) - (PA Media)

A “dismissive” letter from the Home Secretary to the family of murdered MP Sir David Amess following a review into Prevent’s contact with his killer is designed to “protect the Government following its failings” and not support them, their spokesman has said.

Radd Seiger said Sir David’s family were “deeply hurt and angered by the utterly dismissive tone” of Yvette Cooper’s letter and that her “piecemeal approach… will never deliver the whole truth, accountability and justice.”

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