Police charge 25-year-old man with British lawmaker's murder

LONDON — British authorities accidental a antheral has been charged successful the stabbing of a Conservative lawmaker who was killed arsenic helium met constituents astatine a religion hallway past week.

Authorities accidental a 25-year-old British antheral with Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, has been charged with the decease of David Amess.

The Crown Prosecution Service says it volition "submit to the tribunal that this execution has a violent connection, namely that it had some spiritual and ideological motivations."

Amess, a Conservative subordinate of Parliament, was stabbed connected Friday arsenic helium met constituents astatine Belfairs Methodist Church successful Leigh-on-Sea, England. He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Police rapidly arrested Ali. Shortly afterward, Metro Police declared the incidental a violent attack, noting that their probe "revealed a imaginable information linked to Islamist extremism."

Police judge Ali acted unsocial successful the stabbing.

The decease of Amess, who had served successful Parliament for astir 40 years and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II successful 2015, has shocked Britain.