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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Payne

Home Secretary rejects calls from Sir David Amess’s family for public inquiry

Radd Seiger, advisor and spokesperson, and Katie Amess, the daughter of Sir David Amess (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Home Secretary has rejected calls from the family of Sir David Amess for a public inquiry into his death in a letter branded “unacceptable” and “insulting” by the murdered MP’s widow and daughter.

In the letter addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said 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.

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