‘Slayer’ of Brit pol ID’d

The suspect in Friday’s fatal stabbing of British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess was identified Saturday as 25year-old Ali Harbi Ali.

Police told the BBC that Ali, a British national believed to be of Somali descent, was being held under the UK’s Terrorism Act, after he was initially arrested at the scene on murder charges. Under British law, that allows officials to keep him in custody until Friday before official charges must be filed.

Amess, 69, was killed Friday while holding a weekly meeting with constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, 40 miles east of London. The Conservative MP, first elected in 1983, was stabbed multiple times.

The Telegraph reported that Amess, a father of five, had received an “upsetting” threat days before the attack.