The daughter of MP Sir David Amess, Katie Amess, has called the home secretary’s decision to reject a public inquiry into his murder an “absolute insult”.
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00:00But what we don't know is why, who was responsible, and what is being done to ensure that another family never has to go through this pain.
00:10What happened to my father should never, ever have happened.
00:14And yet here we are.
00:16A man who spent his life trying to help others was killed in a brutal, cowardly attack.
00:23And we still do not have the answers that we need.
00:27The killer was known to the agencies and yet he was let free to rip our lives apart.
00:33This decision is an absolute insult and a betrayal to my family and our father's memory.
00:42How can the government justify holding inquiries for other tragic events like Southport and Nottingham?
00:49Yet they refuse to investigate the very system that failed my father.
00:54Is his life worth less than the others?
00:57Does our family not deserve the answers that the other families so rightly deserve?
01:01We need to be sure that this never happens again.