Daughter of murdered MP says ‘everyone failed by Prevent’ should get inquiry

The girl of a murdered MP has called for “everybody other that Prevent failed” to get an enquiry into the decease of their loved one.

Katie Amess, 39, is the girl of Sir David Amess, the Conservative Southend West MP who was stabbed to decease arsenic helium carried retired a constituency country astatine a religion successful Leigh-on-Sea successful October 2021.

It was aboriginal revealed that Sir David’s killer, Ali Harbi Ali, had been referred to the the Government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent anterior to the attack, but that his lawsuit had been closed.

Dan Jarvis said contiguous that a enactment successful the soil has been drawn aft Southport. Why was that enactment successful the soil not drawn successful 2021 erstwhile this happened to my dad?

Katie Amess

Following the work of a reappraisal into the handling of Southport kid slayer Axel Rudakubana nether the aforesaid programme, information curate Dan Jarvis told the House of Commons connected Wednesday that a Prevent learning reappraisal into the sidesplitting of Sir David volition beryllium released adjacent week successful a committedness to transparency implicit the programme.

“Transparency and enabling nationalist scrutiny is besides fundamental, and that is wherefore we volition instrumentality steps to people the findings of different autarkic Prevent learning reviews wherever determination has been an incidental of nationalist significance,” Mr Jarvis said.

Speaking to Iain Dale connected LBC connected Wednesday evening, Ms Amess said she welcomed the announcement – but added each unfortunate failed by Prevent deserves an inquiry, not conscionable the Southport victims.

She said: “I invited the merchandise of it truthful radical tin spot the stupidity that I person been talking about.

“But it’s not an enquiry and I request an inquiry.

“The Southport case, rightly so, has an inquiry. Everybody other that Prevent failed besides needs an inquiry.”

She added: “Dan Jarvis said contiguous that a enactment successful the soil has been drawn aft Southport.

“Why was that enactment successful the soil not drawn successful 2021 erstwhile this happened to my dad?

“We perchance wouldn’t beryllium successful the aforesaid concern contiguous with repetition failings of Prevent had idiosyncratic had conscionable listened to maine backmost erstwhile it happened and launched a afloat nationalist enquiry.”

Ms Amess told LBC Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had said she could not committedness her an enquiry would beryllium held due to the fact that she was not successful bureau erstwhile Sir David was killed.

She added: “That is perfectly irrelevant. Numerous inquiries person been launched by a consequent government, and truthful I said: ‘I don’t judge that arsenic an reply and you can’t prime and take who you’re going to help’.”

Ms Amess said she believes that without the Southport weapon attack, the learning reappraisal into however her father’s slayer had been handled by Prevent would person ne'er been released into the nationalist domain.

She said: “So, I’ve got fundamentally obscurity successful three-and-a-half years. So I conscionable despair.

“And I person got further with the Labour authorities than I did with the Conservatives, but I inactive haven’t had the reply to, yes oregon no: volition I beryllium getting an inquiry?

“That’s each I request to cognize from them.”

Rudakubana was fixed a beingness condemnation with a minimum word of 52 years – 1 of the highest minimum presumption connected grounds – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people successful Southport connected July 29 past year.

The 18-year-old besides attempted to execution 8 different children, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, arsenic good arsenic people teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.

Three abstracted referrals were made to Prevent astir Rudakubana’s behaviour successful the years earlier the attack, arsenic good arsenic six abstracted calls to police, but the learning reappraisal concluded that excessively overmuch absorption was placed connected the lack of a chiseled ideology, to the detriment of considering his susceptibility, grievances and analyzable needs.