Police are probing claims that Ali Harbi Ali was seen near other potential targets before allegedly killing David Amess.
Detectives are tracing the suspect’s movements and examining CCTV footage amid reports that he was spotted hanging around outside offices in central London.
Police are also trying to establish who Ali tried to contact in the moments before he was arrested on Friday.
Witnesses said the 25-year-old calmly used his mobile phone either to make a call or send a text seconds after Sir David was knifed 17 times in a frenzied attack at his constituency surgery in Essex.
Yesterday it emerged that the murder weapon was a kitchen knife recovered from the church in Leigh-on-Sea where the Tory MP died.
Police are probing claims that suspect Ali Harbi Ali, 25, (pictured) was seen near other potential targets before allegedly killing MP David Amess in a frenzied attack on Friday
It was claimed last night that Ali was referred to Prevent as a teenager in 2014, while he was still in education.
He went through a deradicalisation course lasting a few months after concerns were raised about him being drawn toward Islamist ideologies, The Guardian reported. Ali later had his case closed.
It is not known whether his activities were checked in the seven years between the end of his time on the Prevent scheme and his arrest on suspicion of murdering Sir David.
Yesterday friends claimed the London-born Muslim was ‘not political at all’.
This was despite Ali hailing from a prominent family – his
