A Catholic priest was prevented from giving Conservative MP Sir David Amess the last rites [1] as he lay dying in his Essex constituency because police refused him entry to the crime scene.
Father Jeffrey Woolnough arrived at the police cordon stretching across tree-lined Eastwood Road North in Leigh-on-Sea, offering to administer the Last Rites to the devout Catholic, 69, on Friday afternoon after he was stabbed multiple times by a suspected terrorist.
But police officers said “that because it was a crime scene, and also the nature of the scene, it just wasn’t possible.”
He later clarified on social media that he respected the Police’s decision and he instead prayed a rosary for the dying man from outside the police cordon.