CCTV appears to show murder suspect Ali Harbi Ali hours before Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death.
The 25-year-old was seen walking slowly with a backpack across his right shoulder and his left hand in his pocket near his North London home on Friday morning.
He is thought to have been walking to Gospel Oak train station when he was filmed from outside a convenience store on Highgate Road at 8.44am.
In the first moving footage of the murder suspect obtained by Sky News, he is seen leisurely walking down the street dressed in black trousers and a green parka-style coat.
Just over three hours later and 50 miles away, he was arrested for the murder of the Conservative MP and father-of-five, Sir David.
Police are investigating Ali’s movements in the hours leading up to the attack and are probing whether he boarded a train at the nearby station to travel to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
The shop manager who captured the footage said cops had asked to see the CCTV on Saturday morning before he handed over a copy of the video.
He said they specifically wanted to watch between a timeframe of 08.30am and 9am.
Sir David was stabbed to death on Friday while holding a routine constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church.
The 69-year-old Southend West MP had been meeting constituents when the attack happened.
Two female staff watched in horror as the knifeman walked into the church and stabbed the married MP up to 17 times at 12.05pm.
The Tory MP's death is being treated as terrorism with cops continuing to quiz suspect Ali Harbi Ali in custody.
Sources say Ali did not say anything of note during his attack but was seen using his mobile phone moments after the murder.
Ali, 25, had been previously referred to the Government’s Prevent anti-terror scheme but investigators are still piecing together how and when he became radicalised.
So far no direct links between Ali and Sir David have emerged.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has now launched a review into MPs’ safety, five years on from the 2016 murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
A minutes silence was held for the late Sir David on Monday afternoon in the House of Commons.
His grieving family – including his wife Julia and his daughters – also visited a memorial left outside the church where he was murdered.
The distraught loved ones wept as they looked at a mountain of floral tributes left for Sir David.
It comes after they paid tribute to the "courageous" MP in a touching statement, saying their "hearts are shattered" by the tragedy.
The statement read: “Strong and courageous is an appropriate way to describe David. He was a patriot and a man of peace."
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