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2023.06.15 15:35
The killer of Sir David Amess was dismissed as a terrorist threat by experts just months before he bought a knife to hunt down MPs, it can now be revealed.
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, is facing a life sentence after jurors took just 18 minutes to convict him yesterday of the ‘cold and https://jeepininmidwest.com/on-my-level-bag-review/ calculating' murder of the MP and a plot to assassinate other politicians.
After an extraordinary seven-day trial at the Old Bailey, it can now be revealed Ali was discharged by the Government's flagship de-radicalisation Prevent scheme just months before he bought a £20 foot-long carving knife as he started planning a terrorist atrocity in Britain.
The shameless killer boasted to jurors he managed to fool counter-terrorism experts into dismissing him as a risk after just one meeting.
Now the Daily Mail can reveal Ali's own mother suspected her son had joined the Islamic State terror group, but was too afraid to report him.
According to his aunt, Ali's father ‘never took the issue seriously until his son committed murder'.
The revelation poses new questions about how the home-grown terrorist managed to slip through the net.
Yesterday experts said the case had exposed failures of Prevent on the eve of a review by former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross.
In 2014, the teenager was referred by a teacher to the programme, which aims to stop people being drawn into violence.
At the time, Ali said he had ‘pretty much already radicalised myself' as he spurned an offer to study medicine to spend more time in his bedroom musing on IS execution clips.
Family and friends claimed Ali was watching extremist videos online, including those by notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary, who last night issued an extraordinary press release defending Ali's actions.
After his referral, Ali was sent for intensive support under the Channel counter-terrorism programme, overseen by a panel with expertise in de-radicalisation. But he was discharged in mid-2015 after it was decided he did not pose a terror threat.
It meant he was not referred to MI5.
The killer of Sir David Amess, Ali Harbi Ali, 26, (Pictured after his arrest) was dismissed as a terrorist threat by experts just months before he bought a knife to hunt down MPs, it can now be revealed.
He told the Old Bailey trial he had no regrets about the murder, defending his actions by saying Sir David deserved to die as a result of voting in Parliament for air strikes on Syria in 2014 and 2015
Conservative MP for Southend West Sir David Amess (left), pictured with his wife Julia Arnold (far left) and his four daughters
Bodycam footage released from police officers ordering terrorist Ali Harbi Ali to the ground in Belfairs Methodist Church
Emergency services at the scene near the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, where Conservative MP Sir David Amess was killed last October
An email from Ali to Sir David Arness.
Ali said he had an 'interest in Christianity' and wanted to discuss the 'solutions' to declining church attendances