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Ellis Whitehouse & Danya Bazaraa & Matthew Young

ISIS fanatic who murdered MP David Amess smirks as he's told he'll die in prison

A terrorist found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess at his constituency surgery last year smirked as he was jailed for life - and will never be released from prison.

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, travelled to Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on October 15 last year and stabbed the veteran Conservative backbencher 21 times with a 12-inch carving knife in front of his aide, before being tackled to the floor by plain-clothes police officers.

Unrepentant Ali smiled and winked at members of the press as he was taken to the cells after Mr Justice Sweeney gave him a whole life tariff on Wednesday.

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