Felixstowe MP Therese Coffey has sent her condolences after fellow Conservative politician Sir David Amess, died after being stabbed just after noon on Friday (15 October).

Sir David was meeting Southend West constituents at a regular surgery in Leigh-on-Sea

Essex Police said they were called to reports of a stabbing at 12.05 yesterday and arrested a British man of Somali descent.

Police recovered a knife and said they were not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident, which has been described a s 'terror related'.

Sir David was treated at the scene for 90 minutes but it was later confirmed he had died from his wounds.

The incident has sent shockwaves through the political world.

Mrs Coffey, whose Suffolk Coastal constituency includes the Felixstowe peninsula, tweeted: "Horrific news today as colleague and friend Sir David Amess MP has been stabbed to death.

"My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. RIP."

Sir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children.

A Conservative backbencher for nearly forty years, he entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Basildon.

He switched to Southend West at the 1997 election.

He was known politically as a social conservative and as a prominent campaigner against abortion and on animal welfare issues.