Jurors at the Old Bailey were told that Ali Harbi Ali, 26, trekked for nearly two-and-a-half hours from his home in north London to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, where Sir David was hosting appointments in a church on October 15 last year.
The suspect accused of stabbing Sir David Amess to death in a terror attack told the MP’s aide he wouldn’t take ‘too long’ to meet him at the constituency surgery where he died, a court has heard.to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, where Sir David was hosting appointments in a church on October 15 last year, jurors at the Old Bailey were told.
Email exchanges between Ali and one of the Sir David’s aides, in which they arranged the meeting, were shown by prosecutors in court. After the aide asked Ali for his name and address to check whether he was a constituent, the 26-year-old simply gave her a postcode in Southend, writing: ‘I’ll be in the local area on Friday so it would be nice to see him regardless, although I know he’s a very busy man so I can appreciate if that’s not possible.’
Prosecutors say the suspect waited outside the church for 25 minutes before his noon slot, where he stabbed Sir David 21 times and waved a bloody knife around before he was detained by unarmed police.Jurors were also told he sent a message to family and friends around the time of the attack, saying it was ‘for the sake of Allah’, and appeared to have drafted it days earlier.
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