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Ali Harbi Ali had spent years hatching his plot to target an MP before his “cold and calculated” murder of Sir David Amess.
The 26-year-old “fanatical terrorist” had researched a number of potential high-profile targets including Michael Gove, Dominic Raab and Sir Keir Starmer, before settling on the MP for Southend West.
Prosecutors described the knife attack on the veteran Conservative politician as “an assassination for terrorist purposes”.
Here, Sky News gives a detailed account of how Ali carried out his deadly plan and explains the “warped” motive behind the killing.
MP killer was son of ex-Somali government official
Ali was born in London after his family fled the war-ravaged African nation of Somalia in the 1990s, it is thought.
His father, Harbi Ali Kullane, previously worked as director of communications at the office of the prime minister in Somalia.
Ali went to secondary school in Croydon, south London, and “excelled” in his first five years, his trial heard.
However his attendance and school work began to decline during sixth form and his A-level results were not as expected.
Ali Harbi Ali ‘excelled’ at school but dropped out of unversity
Ali claimed that coverage of the Syrian war prompted him to start viewing terror-related material online in 2014.
He later enrolled at City University for a degree in radiotherapy but withdrew from the course in 2016 for “personal reasons”.
A Telegram message from November 2016 calling for people to “wage jihad” with “knives, guns, explosives to kill the crusaders” was found on Ali’s phone, as well as content related to terror group Islamic State.
Why did Ali target Sir David Amess?
By 2021, Ali had decided to carry out an attack and focused on some of the MPs who voted for airstrikes in Syria.
He went to the Houses of Parliament…
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Source : skynews
