David Amess: home secretary asks police to review security measures after MP’s stabbing– as it happened
by Nadeem Badshah (now) and Kevin Rawlinson (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#5QRB5)
Priti Patel asks all police forces to review security arrangements for MPs with immediate effect' after David Amess is killed at surgery for constituents
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Pictures from the scene show emergency services responding:
Councillor John Lamb, who is at the scene, has described Amess as an amicable" family man.
He's a family man, he's got four daughters and a son. He's always trying to help people and especially refugees he's tried to help. He's a very amicable person and he does stick by his guns; he says what he believes and he sticks by it.
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