Harbi Ali Kullane, a former adviser to the prime minister of Somalia, confirmed that his British-born son, Ali Harbi Ali, 25, was in custody. Kullane said that anti-terrorist police from Scotland Yard had visited him.
Speaking at his sister’s home in north London last night, Kullane said: “I’m feeling very traumatised. It’s not something that I expected or even dreamt of.”
… Yesterday Father Jeffrey Woolnough of the nearby St Peter’s Catholic church said he had sprinted to the scene at about 1.45pm, hoping to read the last rites to Amess before he died.
“I went running up the road with my holy oils,” he said. But an officer refused to allow the priest through the police cordon. “He said ‘It’s a crime scene. You can’t go in. There’s evidence that needs to be collected’,” Woolnough said.
“It’s very sad. It’s something that’s necessary in Catholic belief for the soul’s journey to God, to have those last prayers.”
More … Terror suspect Ali Harbi Ali plotted attack on Tory MP Sir David Amess for a week: British Muslim, 25, lives on celebrity-studded London street of £2million houses whose father is a former Somali official left ‘traumatised’ by his son’s arrest
