Passers-by view floral tributes to British MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death during a meeting with constituents, placed outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, Britain, October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
LONDON (Reuters) -British police on Thursday charged a 25-year-old Londoner of Somali heritage with stabbing a lawmaker to death in a church, a case that has raised fears about the safety of elected politicians.
Prosecutor James Cable told the court that Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, had described himself as affiliated to Islamic State and had planned for years to kill a member of parliament.
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