The 69-year-old elected official was killed with more than 20 stab wounds on October 15, 2021. The assailant explained that he targeted the parliamentarian because the latter had voted in favor of airstrikes in Syria.
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A young sympathizer of the terrorist group Islamic State was sentenced to life imprisonment 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.
In sentencing Ali Harbi Ali, 26, Judge Nigel Sweeney of the Criminal Court of the Old Bailey in London stressed that he had no “no remorse or no shame, on the contrary” for the murder with more than 20 stab wounds of the elected official during a parliamentary session on October 15. “This is a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy”underlined the judge.
A very rare sentence
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 Syria 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.