‘YOU CAN’T IMAGINE THE PAIN AND TORMENT’ – KATIE AMESS SENDS MESSAGE TO GROUP WHO CALLED FOR PEOPLE TO ‘KILL A LOCAL MP’

THE daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said she is “heartbroken” after Irish rap group Kneecap told people to murder an MP.

Speaking to GB News, Katie Amess said: “I was just absolutely heartbroken. You can’t imagine the pain and the torment that myself and my family live through every waking moment.

“To hear that this pop group is thinking it was a good thing and that this should happen again and inciting people to hatred and violence is just absolutely devastating to me.

“My dad was an innocent person who worked for the country for 38 years. He did not deserve to die, let alone in the horrible, terrible, violent way that he did.

“So to hear people lauding it and praising it and hoping that it will be done again is just absolutely shattering to me.

“I don’t think [Kneecap] are trying to say it, they did say it – verbatim. So that is a very dangerous rhetoric. You’re speaking to thousands of people that are young, that are impressionable. It’s not art. It is verbatim telling people to go on and commit a murder.

“It doesn’t matter that they said a Tory MP. It could have been a Labour one, a Lib Dem one. It could have been a hairdresser. It could have been a builder.

“They were inciting to kill, and that should not be allowed, and it must be stopped. It is very, very dangerous, and we see the consequences when things aren’t taken seriously.

“My father is no longer with us and that is an absolute tragedy.

“I don’t think there’s any question about whether [funding] should stop. You can’t be funding people that have started to go out and kill people. It’s just mind boggling.

“I don’t know their intentions, I don’t know them personally but it’s definitely got them in the news. Perhaps they weren’t as well-known as this before. I had no idea who they are, now I do.

“It might just be clickbait, rage-bait so they get more likes and more followers. But it’s not a game. It’s not funny. This is serious.

“People actually have lost their lives and we cannot have young, impressionable people being told to commit these crimes, because we saw what happened in my father’s case: a young person, self-radicalised. We saw what happened in Southport. It’s stuff that’s available on the internet. It’s out there for people to access, and then they go on and actually do commit a crime.

“So I don’t care if they’re saying it was art or they were just trying to incense people.

“I would say, imagine that if your dad went to work one day and was killed in the most terrible, violent way, and he was an innocent man. He didn’t do anything wrong. He just stood up for his people and what he believed.

“How would you feel waking up every day to know that you would never see him again? He would never meet your children; he would never be at your wedding?

“It’s ruined my life. It’s ruined my family’s life. It’s not funny, and it’s something that should be taken seriously, and my dad’s memory and his legacy should be respected.

“They need to apologise and think before they speak about the actions that could come from these horrible words.

“There’s so much wrong with society nowadays and this is highlighting one small problem. We need to fix the country, we need to fix young people, otherwise what hope do we have for the future?”