David Amess's daughter slams government over father’s ‘preventable’ death

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00:00My father, Sir David Amos, was not just a public servant, he was my protector, my guide,

00:09my greatest champion, and above all, my friend.

00:21His murder has left an unimaginable void in my family's life that no amount of time

00:29will ever heal. You don't just want justice in terms of the murder of him put in prison,

00:36but you want, in our case, the authorities and the government

00:40to be held accountable as they let my father down so badly.

00:46His death was entirely preventable, and where do you go from that? Grief is not just a sadness,

00:55it is an unrelenting, crushing, suffocating, unbearable weight, and since that awful day,

01:04I struggle to breathe, to sleep, I'm scared to be alone, I fear every noise outside,

01:12I'm worried that another one of my loved ones might be taken from me,

01:17I have to have therapy, I have to be on medication, and I've had to put my life on hold just to try

01:23and survive. I still wake up most mornings praying that this is just a nightmare,

01:32and that I will hear my dad's voice again and see his beautiful beaming smile, but I never will.