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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Man accused of murdering David Amess scouted home of Michael Gove, court hears

David Amess
David Amess died after a stabbing in his Leigh-on-Sea constituency on 15 October 2021. Photograph: Penelope Barritt/Rex/Shutterstock

Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed 21 times in a terrorist “assassination” by a “fanatical Islamist” who also scouted the home of Michael Gove and researched a string of MPs including Sir Keir Starmer as he plotted to kill, incited by Islamic State propaganda, a court has heard.

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, denies the murder of Amess, 69, on 15 October 2021 as the MP held a constituency surgery in Belfairs Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.

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