Police have not yet formally identified the deceased as MP David Amess, hence the phrasing of the update.
Rest in peace.
Edit: has now been formally identified.
Counter terror police involved. This going to be bad.
Statement from Essex Police:
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in Leigh-on-Sea.
We were called to an address in Eastwood Road North shortly after 12.05pm today (Friday 15 October).
We attended and found a man injured. He was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene.
A 25-year-old man was quickly arrested after officers arrived at the scene on suspicion of murder and a knife was recovered. He is currently in custody.
We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.
Disgusting.
will they release information of the attacker? disgusting piece of s*it
Attempted murder of an MP in 2010, actual murder of an MP in 2016, foiled MP murder plot in 2017, another murder of an MP now.
Situation’s so fucked, can’t believe the state of the world some days. This is political violence we’ve not seen since the Troubles.
In his own workplace a coward decided to steal the life of a man who served his constituency for decades, died *whilst* serving the people he represented during a constituency surgery
disgusting, may he rest in peace and whoever responsible rot in a cell
I give it a week before Guardian tries to blame conservatives for the attack.
This week has been marked by senseless unnecessary killing and death
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Last week the deputy leader of the Labour party was talking about ‘Tory Scum’. Today, one of those Tories has been stabbed and killed. When you get to the highest levels of politics you have a responsibility to be cautious with your words, to be a calming influence. She isn’t fit to be in her position.
RIP the guy
two MPs killed here in the space of 5 years is abhorrent. unacceptable. Something drastic needs to change in our politics scene and its relationship with citizens to prevent this becoming normalcy; the attacker physically should not have been able to murder a sitting member of parliament, and should not have reached the point politically to even think about doing so
Holy shit
This is terrible.
Blatant attack on our democracy
I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with his pro Brexit campaign and his general behavior after Brexit. UK already has a really challenging time, a disgusting Brexit-related assassination would make everything even worse. Anyway, RIP, no one deserves this.
Now being treated as a terrorist attack and being handled by Counter Terrorist officers so given the MP was a prominent pro-Brexit Tory and part of the ERG it’s looking like my theory of it being a nutjob millennial remoaner that /r/unitedkingdom and /r/ukpolitics is rammed full of wasn’t far off the mark. It’s going to be interesting to see if that is the case and if the toxic shit on those two subs, Twitter etc are what fuelled his ideology.
It’s fine the prison system will rehabilitate the murderer and have him back in the streets in no time
Right wing terrorist murders right winger.
So this guy was anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pro Iraq war, yeah nothing of value was lost.
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Horrible update.
Police have not yet formally identified the deceased as MP David Amess, hence the phrasing of the update.
Rest in peace.
Edit: has now been formally identified.
Counter terror police involved. This going to be bad.
Statement from Essex Police:
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in Leigh-on-Sea.
We were called to an address in Eastwood Road North shortly after 12.05pm today (Friday 15 October).
We attended and found a man injured. He was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene.
A 25-year-old man was quickly arrested after officers arrived at the scene on suspicion of murder and a knife was recovered. He is currently in custody.
We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.
Disgusting.
will they release information of the attacker? disgusting piece of s*it
Attempted murder of an MP in 2010, actual murder of an MP in 2016, foiled MP murder plot in 2017, another murder of an MP now.
Situation’s so fucked, can’t believe the state of the world some days. This is political violence we’ve not seen since the Troubles.
In his own workplace a coward decided to steal the life of a man who served his constituency for decades, died *whilst* serving the people he represented during a constituency surgery
disgusting, may he rest in peace and whoever responsible rot in a cell
I give it a week before Guardian tries to blame conservatives for the attack.
This week has been marked by senseless unnecessary killing and death
[deleted]
Last week the deputy leader of the Labour party was talking about ‘Tory Scum’. Today, one of those Tories has been stabbed and killed. When you get to the highest levels of politics you have a responsibility to be cautious with your words, to be a calming influence. She isn’t fit to be in her position.
RIP the guy
two MPs killed here in the space of 5 years is abhorrent. unacceptable. Something drastic needs to change in our politics scene and its relationship with citizens to prevent this becoming normalcy; the attacker physically should not have been able to murder a sitting member of parliament, and should not have reached the point politically to even think about doing so
Holy shit
This is terrible.
Blatant attack on our democracy
I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with his pro Brexit campaign and his general behavior after Brexit. UK already has a really challenging time, a disgusting Brexit-related assassination would make everything even worse. Anyway, RIP, no one deserves this.
Now being treated as a terrorist attack and being handled by Counter Terrorist officers so given the MP was a prominent pro-Brexit Tory and part of the ERG it’s looking like my theory of it being a nutjob millennial remoaner that /r/unitedkingdom and /r/ukpolitics is rammed full of wasn’t far off the mark. It’s going to be interesting to see if that is the case and if the toxic shit on those two subs, Twitter etc are what fuelled his ideology.
It’s fine the prison system will rehabilitate the murderer and have him back in the streets in no time
Right wing terrorist murders right winger.
So this guy was anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pro Iraq war, yeah nothing of value was lost.