The accused in the murder case of the British legislator confessed to membership in ISIS.
The prosecutor in the case of the murder of a British lawmaker said that the accused had confessed to being affiliated with the ISIL terrorist group.
Ali Harbi Ali, accused of killing David Ames, a member of the House of Commons, has confessed to being a member of the ISIS terrorist group.
According to the Arvan News website, James Cable, the prosecutor in charge of the Ames murder case, said on Thursday that Ali Harbi Ali was charged in today’s court hearing.
The British judicial official added that in this court session, this person admitted that he is “affiliated with ISIL”.
Nick Price, head of the Special Crimes and Counter-Terrorism Division of the British Royal Court, said the 25-year-old defendant had been “preparing for this terrorist act” in the United States since 2019.
Earlier, the British Counter-Terrorism Police officially declared the stabbing incident that led to the death of this veteran British legislator a terrorist act.
New Scotland Yard metropolitan police said in a statement on Friday that initial investigations showed a potential motive for “Islamic extremism”.
Officials told the British National News Agency that the man arrested on suspicion of killing Ames was a British Somali national.
Ames, 69, a member of Britain’s ruling Conservative party, Boris Johnson, was stabbed to death several times at noon on Friday in a church in East London’s Essex district during a meeting with voters in his constituency.
Earlier in 2016, British lawmaker Joe Cox was shot dead during a referendum.
A few days after David Ames was assassinated, Labor MP Chris Bryant also received a death threat letter. Bryant told reporters after the assassination of Ames that since 2001, there has not been a year that has not been threatened with death, and this trend has intensified in recent years.
