A jury has found an ISIS supporter guilty of stabbing British lawmaker David Amess to death.
The Associated PressA portrait of MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death during a meeting with constituents, is carried into Westminster Cathedral for a remembrance mass in his honour in London, England, on Nov. 23, 2021.Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was found guilty by London's Central Criminal Court of murder and preparing terrorist acts. Ali stabbed the veteran British lawmaker to death last year while he was meeting with voters at a church hall in eastern England.
Ali, a London man with Somali heritage, had denied charges of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.Opening the trial, prosecutor Tom Little said the case was "nothing less than an assassination" carried out because of a "warped and twisted and violent ideology." Little said Ali bought the knife used to attack Amess five years earlier, and that Ali tricked his way into meeting Amess by pretending to be one of his constituents.