The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said the government's anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent failed her father "catastrophically" and suggests her family were misled over the inquest into his killing. In an interview with ITV News, Katie Amess hit out at the fact her father's killer was known to authorities seven years before the murder but was not followed up on properly after he was reported to Prevent.
She told of her family's anger of being denied answers by officials as she urged for an inquest to be re-opened to investigate why killer Ali Harbi Ali wasn't assessed by authorities. "I just think that there's no accountability and nobody wants to be held responsible," she told Political Editor Robert Peston.
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She told of her family's anger of being denied answers by officials as she urged for an inquest to be re-opened to investigate why killer Ali Harbi Ali wasn't assessed by authorities. "I just think that there's no accountability and nobody wants to be held responsible," she told Political Editor Robert Peston.
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00:00There's no accountability and nobody wants to be held responsible.
00:05My dad worked for 40 years for his people, for the country,
00:10and he is owed the respect of finding out where he was failed,
00:16why he was failed, and to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
00:19Everything I've tried to do has failed.
00:21These people came to the funeral and were crying and so sad that it had happened.
00:26Yet when I need support and to be allowed to find out what happened,
00:32nobody is anywhere to be seen.