United Kingdom, British MP stabbed David Amess, arrested a man
The Conservative MP David Amess, stabbed several times in the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, he died. Sky News citing police and deputy office sources, he had reported on the attack that took place in the past few hours in Essex. The police have announced the arrest of the attacker but at the moment the identity of the man and the motive remain unknown. The parliamentarian was stabbed by a man who had entered the meeting and attacked him. Amess was immediately rescued on the spot, from which those present were removed. Paramedics tried for a long time to stabilize his condition and then resuscitate him, but without success.
Who was David Amess, a veteran on the front line against stabbings
Sir David Anthony Andrew AmessThe 69-year-old British Conservative MP stabbed in a meeting with voters today, has sat in parliament for the Conservative party for 38 years, but has never been a minister. A staunch supporter of Brexit, he has been involved in many animal rights campaigns, including one against fox hunting. Catholic, he was married and father of five children, including actress Katie Amess.
Amess fell victim to a plague he tried to stem. The Conservative MP stabbed to death in Leigh-on-Sea last March had intervened in the House of Commons to stigmatize the growing number of knife killings in his constituency and, more generally, across the UK. Amess had told the terrible story of a young sportsman who was stabbed to death and had asked vehemently during his speech: “What more can be done? What more can the police, society and parliament do to prevent tragedies of this kind from happening in the future? ”.
A veteran of politics, Amess was first elected in 1983, in the historically poised Basildon college, which he held until 1992, gaining fame in the ranks of his party. In 1997 he then moved on to the nearby Southend West boarding school. Catholic, strenuously monarchist, the sixty-nine had strongly conservative positions on the subject of abortion and homosexual unions. A longtime Eurosceptic, he supported the 2016 referendum on the UK’s exit from the European Union and was a staunch supporter of hard Brexit.
The anti-terrorism police are also investigating
The British counter-terrorism police have been involved in the stabbing investigation, it reads Guardian, stating that the investigation continues to be conducted by the Essex police force. Counter-terrorism officers are following the case closely and are being updated on the details that emerge about the attack and the suspect arrested, the newspaper specifies, recalling that their involvement is routine in these cases until a motive unrelated to facts of terrorism.
The killer of the deputy is a 25-year-old
From Reuters It is learned that the man arrested for the murder of British Conservative MP David Amess is a 25-year-old. The weapon used for the murder is a knife.
The young man, reports the Sun, stormed into the premises of the Methodist church in the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, where Amess was meeting the townspeople, and rushed hard on him, raging with numerous stab wounds in front of the horrified citizens. Immediately the police stopped the attacker and the paramedics tried to revive Amess.