The 69-year-old elected official was killed with more than twenty stab wounds on October 15, 2021. The attacker explained that he targeted the parliamentarian because the latter had voted in favor of air strikes in Syria.
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A young supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release on Wednesday April 13 for the murder of British MP David Amess, which shocked and moved the United Kingdom last autumn.
Sentencing Ali Harbi Ali, 26, Judge Nigel Sweeney of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, London, pointed out that he had no “no remorse or no shame, on the contrary” for the murder of the elected official, stabbed more than twenty times, during a parliamentary session on October 15. “This is a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy”underlined the judge.
The young man had pleaded not guilty, but he had declared last week at the hearing to have targeted the 69-year-old elected official because the latter had voted in favor of airstrikes in Syria. Frustrated at not going to fight himself in this country with the Islamic State group, the accused said to himself that he had to “trying to do something here to help the Muslims there”.
Full life is a very rare sentence, which was imposed last September on police officer Wayne Couzens, convicted of the March 2021 murder of Londoner Sarah Everard, as well as the murderer of MP Jo Cox, the supporter of the extreme right Thomas Mair.