The family of murdered MP Sir David Amess have accused the Home Secretary of ‘adding salt onto an open wound’ by rejecting their calls for an inquiry into his death.
Yvette Cooper wrote to Sir David’s widow Lady Julia Amess and his daughter Katie to explain why she would not press ahead with a public inquiry.
She said it was ‘hard to see’ how such a move could answer questions that had not already been covered by the trial of killer Ali Harbi Ali and other reports and reviews that were already underway.
In response, the family branded her letter as ‘insulting’ and ‘unacceptable’.
Lady Julia said Sir Keir Starmer should ‘go away and reconsider the Government’s position’ before she meets him and Cooper on Wednesday.
Katie added: ‘I felt so, so angry that this was how they felt this should be dealt with and such sadness at the betrayal of people that are claiming to be my dad’s friends just fobbing us off again and again and brushing us under the carpet.
‘I felt so sad on my dad’s behalf – he isn’t here any more to stick up for himself so I am trying to do that as much as I can, but I’m just absolutely heartbroken that Yvette Cooper could write this letter to my mother and I and think that we’re just going to go away and accept this.
‘It’s adding salt onto an open wound – that’s how I see it. Sadness, betrayal, pain and just heartbreak really.’
Long-serving Conservative MP Sir David was stabbed to death by Ali, an Islamic State fanatic, while he held a constituency surgery in Essex on October 15 2021.
The killer was sentenced to a whole-life order in 2022.
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