Sir David Amess murder: Ali Harbi Ali given whole life order

IS fanatic Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole-life jail sentence for murdering MP Sir David Amess.

Ali stabbed the Southend West MP more than 20 times at a constituency surgery in Essex in October.

At the hearing at the Old Bailey, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: "This was a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy."

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