It will be hard to believe if this wasn’t a political assassination.
UPDATE:
Meet Beta Boy Joshua Kerry, 28. He’s a radical communist who murdered Ann Widdecombe:
Pictured here for the first time, Joshua Kerry is accused of targeting the 78-year-old former Tory minister in her Devon home in a suspected terrorist attack.
The 28-year-old has lived alone in a council house in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, since the death of his father last year.
The family is well-known on the Kimberworth Park estate, with several members having served in the military.
His father Paul Yates, a ‘highly intelligent’ former steel industry research engineer, stopped work after losing a leg and was diagnosed with stomach cancer in his 60s.
After leaving school, Kerry got an office job at a lift company, where he was pictured in 2022 holding up a jar of Easter eggs as part of a charity fundraiser for local sea cadets.
Shared on social media by staff, he was described as ‘part of the engine room’ of the firm.
Neighbors this week described him as polite, ‘quiet and shy’, saying he would take the bins out for them or hold on to parcels on their behalf.
The “polite, quiet, shy” Kerry is a homicidal commie who traveled 270 miles to assassinate her.
Terrorism is the motive.
Yep, it was political:
The brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe was last night being treated as a suspected politically motivated terrorist attack.
In a dramatic escalation, counter terrorism officers yesterday took over the investigation into the killing of the former Tory minister. It came after the discovery of Russian communist literature and other items of political ideology at the home of the suspected killer.
And it marked a U-turn after the local force, Devon and Cornwall Police, spent days insisting that there was no link to terrorism. Officers, it is understood, are probing whether the 78-year-old may have been bludgeoned to death in a premeditated attack on Reform UK.
They are looking at whether a self-radicalized loner may have considered the pensioner an ‘easy target’ in comparison to more prominent party figures, such as Nigel Farage, who have security.
Last night, Reform accused Devon and Cornwall police of misleading the public in the initial stages of the investigation.
Senior officers were under pressure to explain why they so publicly ruled out terror or a political motivation.
When the bloodied body of the former prisons minister was found on Thursday morning, officers initially focused on a theory that she had disturbed a burglar at her home in Haytor, Dartmoor, even though nothing had been taken from the £600,000 property.
Two days after the murder, detectives arrested a local laborer in error, before later detaining a 28-year-old man 270 miles away in Rotherham on Saturday night. The Mail has learnt that items of varying political ideology, including Russian material, have been found at the suspect’s home and on electronic devices.
But investigators do not believe there is any evidence of hostile state involvement.
Counter terrorism police are investigating whether the ‘lone wolf’ targeted Ms Widdecombe due to her political views, which she frequently expressed during regular appearances on TV and radio defending Reform as the party’s immigration and justice spokesman.
Police have launched a murder investigation over the death of veteran British politician and Reform UK spokesman Ann Widdecombe, who they now say was found to have “sustained serious injuries” at her home in Devon, England
Devon and Cornwall police have arrested a suspect after the alleged murder of Reform UK politician Ann Widdecombe. Speaking at a press conference just now, Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman said a 26-year-old “white British national” male had been arrested in Newton Abbot, a short drive from where Ann Widdecombe was found dead in her home on Dartmoor having sustained “serious injuries”.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in police custody.
The senior officer said the force “remain open minded” on what happened and why, but nevertheless said although counter-terror police had been consulted in their investigation, they are not at this time treating the slaying as either terrorism or politics related.
……..Ann Widdecombe first emerged in British politics in the 1980s when she co-founded and led Women and Families for Defense. Intended to push back against left-wing pressure groups campaigning against nuclear weapons, Widdecombe then went on to be elected to Parliament as a Conservative under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and later served as a government minister.
Widdecombe was a staunch Brexiteer and known for her uncompromising socially conservative views including on homosexuality, abortion, ‘assisted suicide’, and the death penalty. She left the Conservative Party after the modernizing, centrist era of Prime Minister David Cameron and joined Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, serving as a Member of the European Parliament alongside Farage in Britain’s final year of membership of the bloc.
Moving on from the Brexit Party to Reform UK, Widdecombe was appointed justice and immigration spokesman for the Farage-led party.
The murder investigation into former Conservative minister and Reform UK figure Ann Widdecombe has escalated significantly, with specialist counter-terrorism officers now spearheading the inquiry following the re-arrest of a 28-year-old suspect on terror-related offences.
According to UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, the investigation is now ‘following new information and evidence’ after the British man was arrested on Saturday in South Yorkshire, England.
The statement released by the Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed that the Counter Terrorism Policing North East and South Yorkshire Police made the arrest.
On Monday, the Counter Terrorism Policing stated that their investigation has produced new evidence that the man has been re-arrested on terrorism charges. ‘The man in custody has since been re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,’ the statement said. Authorities are now working to establish whether the attack was driven by a political or ideological motive.
Terrorism is based in politics and religious extremism.
I can hardly wait to see the name and political/religious affiliation of this “white” suspect.
Related article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/10/police-investigating-ann-widdecombe-death/