UK police charge 25-year-old man with lawmaker's murder

LONDON — British authorities said Thursday a antheral has been charged successful the stabbing of a Conservative lawmaker who was killed arsenic helium met constituents astatine a religion hallway past week.

Authorities accidental a 25-year-old British antheral with Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, has been charged successful the decease of David Amess. The Crown Prosecution Service says it volition “submit to the tribunal that this execution has a violent connection, namely that it had some spiritual and ideological motivations.’’

The decease of Amess, who had served successful Parliament for astir 40 years and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II successful 2015, has shocked Britain, particularly its politicians, who pridefulness themselves connected being accessible to their constituents. It has prompted conversations astatine the highest levels astir however the state protects its leaders and grapples with extremism astatine home.

The slaying came 5 years aft Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was changeable and stabbed to decease by a far-right extremist. Cox was the archetypal British lawmaker to beryllium killed since a bid accord ended large-scale Northern Ireland unit astir 30 years earlier.