Harbi Ali Kullane, a former communications advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia, spoke to The Sunday Times to confirm that his son Ali Harbi Ali, 25, was in police custody following the attack.
Police searched the home in a quiet street in Croydon, south London, on Friday. A neighbour today told MailOnline how Ali grew up in the terrace property before leaving in his late teens.
Father Jeffrey Woolnough has claimed that police prevented him from giving Conservative MP Sir David Amess his last rites as he lay dying in his Essex constituency in Leigh-on-Sea.
Sources revealed that the attacker had booked an appointment at Sir David s constituency surgery. Pictured: Police outside the home of the suspect in Kentish Town.