The 69-year-old lawmaker who supported Boris Johnson’s government was attacked during a meeting in his college. The manager stopped
David Amess is dead. The 69-year-old Tory majority MP who supports Boris Johnson’s British government has passed away after being assaulted by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed him in Essex, southern England.
Amess died in the Methodist church of Leigh-on-Sea, where he was stabbed, despite the intervention of the helicopter rescue. The deputy received treatment on the spot for about two hours after the assault at 12:05, but it was not enough to save his life. The numerous stab wounds were fatal. Amess was assaulted while meeting with voters in his constituency in Essex: a tragedy reminiscent of the murder of Jo Cox, the Labor MP who died in similar circumstances at the hands of a right-wing extremist, in 2016 during the campaign for the referendum. on Brexit.
The attacker, a man, was blocked and arrested in the immediacy of the facts: it is not clear whether he is a deranged person or if there was some specific motive at the origin of the gesture.
David Amess was a veteran of the British parliament. First elected in 1983, he was respected by all his colleagues.
The Jo Cox Foundation expressed its closeness to the Conservative MP, «to his family and all his loved ones in this difficult time. We are horrified by the news of the attack ”, reads the Foundation’s Twitter account.
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The 69-year-old lawmaker who supported Boris Johnson’s government was attacked during a meeting in his college. The manager stopped
David Amess is dead. The 69-year-old Tory majority MP who supports Boris Johnson’s British government has passed away after being assaulted by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed him in Essex, southern England.
Amess died in the Methodist church of Leigh-on-Sea, where he was stabbed, despite the intervention of the helicopter rescue. The deputy received treatment on the spot for about two hours after the assault at 12:05, but it was not enough to save his life. The numerous stab wounds were fatal. Amess was assaulted while meeting with voters in his constituency in Essex: a tragedy reminiscent of the murder of Jo Cox, the Labor MP who died in similar circumstances at the hands of a right-wing extremist, in 2016 during the campaign for the referendum. on Brexit.
The attacker, a man, was blocked and arrested in the immediacy of the facts: it is not clear whether he is a deranged person or if there was some specific motive at the origin of the gesture.
David Amess was a veteran of the British parliament. First elected in 1983, he was respected by all his colleagues.
The Jo Cox Foundation expressed its closeness to the Conservative MP, «to his family and all his loved ones in this difficult time. We are horrified by the news of the attack ”, reads the Foundation’s Twitter account.
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The 69-year-old lawmaker who supported Boris Johnson’s government was attacked during a meeting in his college. The manager stopped
David Amess is dead. The 69-year-old Tory majority MP who supports Boris Johnson’s British government has passed away after being assaulted by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed him in Essex, southern England.
Amess died in the Methodist church of Leigh-on-Sea, where he was stabbed, despite the intervention of the helicopter rescue. The deputy received treatment on the spot for about two hours after the assault at 12:05, but it was not enough to save his life. The numerous stab wounds were fatal. Amess was assaulted while meeting with voters in his constituency in Essex: a tragedy reminiscent of the murder of Jo Cox, the Labor MP who died in similar circumstances at the hands of a right-wing extremist, in 2016 during the campaign for the referendum. on Brexit.
The attacker, a man, was blocked and arrested in the immediacy of the facts: it is not clear whether he is a deranged person or if there was some specific motive at the origin of the gesture.
David Amess was a veteran of the British parliament. First elected in 1983, he was respected by all his colleagues.
The Jo Cox Foundation expressed its closeness to the Conservative MP, «to his family and all his loved ones in this difficult time. We are horrified by the news of the attack ”, reads the Foundation’s Twitter account.
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The 69-year-old lawmaker who supported Boris Johnson’s government was attacked during a meeting in his college. The manager stopped
David Amess is dead. The 69-year-old Tory majority MP who supports Boris Johnson’s British government has passed away after being assaulted by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed him in Essex, southern England.
Amess died in the Methodist church of Leigh-on-Sea, where he was stabbed, despite the intervention of the helicopter rescue. The deputy received treatment on the spot for about two hours after the assault at 12:05, but it was not enough to save his life. The numerous stab wounds were fatal. Amess was assaulted while meeting with voters in his constituency in Essex: a tragedy reminiscent of the murder of Jo Cox, the Labor MP who died in similar circumstances at the hands of a right-wing extremist, in 2016 during the campaign for the referendum. on Brexit.
The attacker, a man, was blocked and arrested in the immediacy of the facts: it is not clear whether he is a deranged person or if there was some specific motive at the origin of the gesture.
David Amess was a veteran of the British parliament. First elected in 1983, he was respected by all his colleagues.
The Jo Cox Foundation expressed its closeness to the Conservative MP, «to his family and all his loved ones in this difficult time. We are horrified by the news of the attack ”, reads the Foundation’s Twitter account.
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