British Conservative MP David Amess, 69, was stabbed several times on Friday during a parliamentary office he was holding at a church in his constituency in
Leigh-on-Sea, east of London, according to local media. Local police announced the arrest of a man, and confirmed that a person had been stabbed, without specifying his identity. She said she was not looking for “anyone else” after the arrest.
A witness named Anthony described on LBC radio a large police deployment there. “I saw someone being taken out of the building, put in the back of a police car,” he said. “Apparently he has been stabbed several times,” he added of the MP. Political reactions immediately poured in, in a country marked by the assassination in the middle of the street in 2016 of MEP Jo Cox a week before the Brexit referendum by a neo-Nazi sympathizer.
“Horrible and deeply shocking news,” tweeted Labor Opposition Leader Keir Starmer, addressing his thoughts to the MP, his relatives and associates.
Horrific and deeply shocking news. Thinking of David, his family and his staff.
– Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) October 15, 2021