Sir David Amess’ Daughter Slams Cooper for Rejecting Public Inquiry into MP’s Death – Guido Fawkes

Sir David Amess’ Daughter Slams Cooper for Rejecting Public Inquiry into MP’s Death

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has rejected the Amess family’s plea for a public inquiry into the brutal murder of Sir David Amess MP. The family had called on Starmer to consider including his murder in the public inquiry into the Southport killings…

Cooper wrote a letter to Sir David’s widow and daughter, Katie Amess, saying it was “hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond” terrorist killer Ali Harbi Ali’s trial and the recently published Prevent learning review. In an emotional news conference in Westminster, Katie Amess said Cooper’s letter added “salt on to an open wound”, and the government ‘need to be held accountable’ for ‘letting her father down so badly’. Heartbreaking…

Read Cooper’s letter in full below:

“You had initially asked me to support the resumption of the coronial inquest which, as I said in my last letter of 17 December 2024, is a decision I cannot interfere with given the coroner’s independent judicial role, although I do recognise how difficult this is for you.

I am aware that you have since requested a full public inquiry. As you will know the coroner looked carefully at whether to resume an inquest into Sir David’s death following the criminal trial, but concluded there were no additional questions that could be answered through an investigation of this kind, that had not already been considered as part of the trial. In the circumstances it is therefore hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond what has been reviewed in the trial, Prevent learning review, coroner’s report, as well as Lord Anderson and Essex Police’s forthcoming conclusions.

On that basis, the government cannot establish a public inquiry. I realise this is not the answer you were looking for. I remain keen to discuss this with you in the forthcoming meeting with the Prime Minister.”