The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said that the death of his close friend Ann Widdecombe feels like a ‘sick dream’.
Katie Amess warned that ‘nothing has changed’ since her father was stabbed more than 20 times by an Islamic State fanatic in 2021.
She recalled: ‘When it happened to my dad, [Ms Widdecombe] came up from Devon, she lived with us, she protected us.
‘To see what has happened to her is just like I’m living in a sick, sick dream.’
The former Conservative minister – who became Sir David’s ‘best friend’ during their time in Parliament – was godmother
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