Home secretary rejects call for inquiry by family of murdered MP David Amess

Katie Amess said Yvette Cooper’s rejection of a public inquiry into her father’s death were ‘adding salt on to an open wound’. Photograph: Lucy North/PA

The family of murdered MP Sir David Amess have criticised an “insulting” rejection by the home secretary of their calls for a public inquiry into his death, accusing the government of “adding salt on an open wound”.

The home secretary said in a letter to Julia and Katie Amess that it was “hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond” terrorist killer Ali Harbi Ali’s trial and the recently published Prevent learning review.