BBC News
By Doug Faulkner & Alex Kleiderman
October 16, 2021
The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.
Sir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday.
The Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
Home Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a “man of the people” who was “killed doing a job he loved”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flo