David Amess’s daughter says Prevent anti-terror scheme ‘isn’t fit for purpose’

Katie Amess called for an inquest into her father’s death, saying he ‘is owed the decency and the respect to find out where he was failed’. Photograph: Penelope Barritt/Rex/Shutterstock

The daughter of the murdered MP David Amess has criticised Home Office failures that meant her father’s killer was unmonitored for years before the attack, saying the Prevent programme “isn’t fit for purpose”.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Katie Amess condemned the fact her father’s killer was known to authorities but his case was closed due to “an admin error”.