British Conservative MP David Amess, 69, suffered several stab wounds this Friday during a meeting with voters from his constituency in Leigh-on-Sea, in the English county of Essex. The attack took place in a Methodist church, during an encounter that was interrupted by a man armed with a knife, according to the television network Sky News.
Amess, 69, has suffered several injuries and has received treatment at the scene, although his condition has not been disclosed. Essex Police have confirmed on their social media the arrest of a man after an “incident” in Leigh-on-Sea, although without specifying the name of the victim. “We are not looking for anyone else,” the institution has clarified.
These types of acts with citizens are relatively frequent among UK legislators and Amess himself had promoted it on his social networks, along with an email address and a telephone number to manage the reservation of appointments.
Precisely Before a similar forum, Labor MP Jo Cox was assassinated in June 2016., 41 years old. The author of the crime, Thomas Mair, linked to the extreme right and with mental problems, was sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of that same year.
Cox was the first British lawmaker to be assassinated during his tenure since 1990, when conservative Ian Gow was killed in a car bomb attack claimed by the IRA. Gow, a former adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Tatcher, died at the age of 53 in an attack in the English town of Sussex. Before him, the IRA had also assassinated Congressman Anthony Berry, in the 1984 attack on a hotel where Thatcher was also staying.
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