China News Service, October 17th. Comprehensive foreign media reported that on the 16th local time, the British police announced the identity of the suspect in the assassination of Conservative Party member Ames. His name is Ali Habi Ali, a British Somali descent. people.
According to reports, Ali is 25 years old and has been arrested and temporarily detained at the London Police Station.
He was focused on by the British government’s anti-terrorism "prevention plan" several years ago, which aims to monitor and combat extremism.
The police said that early investigations revealed that Ali’s motives for the crime may be related to Islamic extremism, and they plan to interrogate him in the near future.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said Ali's father was an adviser to the Prime Minister of Somalia, and the British police had analyzed his mobile phone.
At around 12:05 on the 15th local time, Ames was stabbed multiple times by a man at a rally meeting with voters.
An emergency plane flew to the scene of the incident, and medical staff rescued it, but Ames still died of his injuries.
Ames has been a member of Congress since 1983.
At the beginning of the year, he talked about anti-social behaviors and knife crime incidents in the country, and called on the government to take more measures to deal with it.
He is the second incumbent member of Parliament to be assassinated in the UK in the past five years.
In 2016, Labour MP Cox was attacked and killed in his electoral district.