'Questionable decision-making' in Prevent case involving ISIS-supporting killer of MP Sir David Amess

A "problematic" appraisal of MP Sir David Amess's slayer led to "questionable decision-making" and the "suboptimal" handling of his Prevent case, a reappraisal has found.

Sir David was stabbed to death by Islamic State (ISIS) protagonist Ali Harbi Ali during a constituency country astatine a religion hallway successful Leigh-on-Sea successful October 2021.

The killer, who was fixed a whole-life condemnation successful 2022, had go radicalised by ISIS propaganda and had been referred to the anti-terror programme Prevent earlier the attack, but his lawsuit had been closed.

Failures successful dealing with his lawsuit led to it being "exited" excessively soon, information curate Dan Jarvis told the House of Commons connected Wednesday.

Following the work of a reappraisal into Prevent's handling of Southport kid slayer Axel Rudakubana earlier this month, Mr Jarvis said a Prevent learning reappraisal into Sir David's sidesplitting would beryllium released this week successful a committedness to transparency implicit the anti-terror programme.

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Sir David's daughter, Katie Amess, 39, welcomed the announcement but said each unfortunate failed by Prevent deserves an inquiry, not conscionable the Southport victims.

"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 [her father's killing] happened and launched a afloat nationalist inquiry," she told LBC.

Ms Amess said she believes if the Southport onslaught had not happened, the reappraisal into Prevent's handling of her father's slayer would ne'er person been released into the nationalist domain.

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