he was holding constituency meetings in a church in leigh on sea and ali said that he was an nhs worker, he pretended that he was interested in moving to the area and that he wanted to discuss local issues, but in fact he had been planning his crime for a long time. he took a knife with him to that meeting and stabbed sir david more than 20 times. we also know that part of that plan was to die himself that day. he wanted to be shot by armed police but, in fact, the two police officers are first on the scene were armed only with were armed only with batons and an incapacitant spray. they managed to overpower him and arrest him. now, we have heard from police during this trial that he was, as they described it, self radicalised back in 2014. he had been a student at university studying a medical degree, but he dropped out in 2014 and started looking at a lot of islamic state material online and began to plan a trip to syria, but he decided that was the difficult and he was going,
for murdering the consevative mp sir david amess. describing it as a murder that struck at the heart of democracy judge nigel sweeney said the 26 year old islamic state group sympathiser had shown no remorse. outside the court, a police officer read a statement on behalf of lady amess and sir david s family. 0ur reporter andrew plant is outside the old bailey. this happened here at the old bailey just after midday today. ali harbi ali given that whole life sentence and that means exactly as it sounds, of course, he will never be eligible for parole and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. during sentencing, thejudge commended the family of david amis for their bravery throughout this process and he said that ali had shown a cowardly refusal to face up to his guilt and shown absolutely no remorse for his actions whatsoever. now, during his trial here at the old bailey we learnt quite a lot more details about what happened that day, october the 15th last year. we now know that
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