The Southport killings might not have happened if there'd been an inquiry, and now Keir Starmer won't give us the answers we need

When Lady Julia Amess met Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in Downing Street last week to plead for a public inquiry into the brutal killing of her dearly-loved husband Sir David, she brought a photograph of him and placed it on the cream sofa where she sat with their eldest daughter, Katie. 'My mum told them how sad she is and how we're still living in this heartbreak, this torment, because we're not getting the answers we need,' says Katie Amess Katie Amess with beloved father David in 2015 As it is, the Prime Minister has now offered a review of the Prevent learning review, which was published last month. Katie was 5,000 miles away in Los Angeles and, owing to the eight-hour time difference, fast asleep when Ali Harbi Ali, 29, ended her father's life 'The whole world knew before I did,' she says. 'My dad wouldn't have wanted me to go to the trial and listen to the most traumatic things,' says Katie. Of the questions asked following Sir David's death, she says: 'We presumed during that first year all the failings would come to light because that's what you think should happen if somebody's being monitored by a scheme and the scheme doesn't work.