An Alleged terrorist Ali Harbi Ali is currently standing trial over the brutal murder of MP Sir David Amess in Essex last October.
Although the suspect denies murder and a charge of preparing acts of terrorism, Phone data shows Ali Harbi Ali was near the Conservative MP’s home address on at least five occasions in 2021, prosecutor Tom Little QC says.
Also, Prosecutors disclosed that several contents related to Islamic State were found on Ali’s devices.
DC Marcus Boland, the detective on the case, confirmed content related to terror group Islamic State was found on Ali Harbi Ali’s devices after they were seized by police.
They include a photograph of a man holding a firearm and the Islamic State flag, and a video of men pledging their allegiance to the group’s leader.
The prosecution team also read an email apparently sent by Ali Harbi Ali to his university in 2016, in which he says he no longer wants to continue with his radiotherapy course.
In the email, he apologises for his recent absence in school due to “illness, Eid and family problems”.
Ali further wrote in the email that after having an “opportunity to think on” whether to continue with the course at City University, he has decided to drop out.
“I want to pursue a different direction in life,” he says.
Meanwhile, a forensic pathologist Dr Matthew Cieka, who conducted the post-mortem on Sir David Amess said the MP had wounds on his cheek, neck, shoulder, armpit, stomach, back and chest, Dr Cieka says, including a stab wound that pierced one of his lungs.
All numbered to 23 stab wounds, including four that entered his chest.
