Brian Melley
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Former UK minister Widdecombe was ‘hit over head with a hammer 21 times’, court told (opens the original)
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London: Former British politician Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times on the head with a hammer as she was eating lunch at home, a prosecutor told a court hearing on Tuesday for the man charged in her murder. Joshua Kerry, 28, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London over the killing that shocked the public and the political establishment. Widdecombe, 78, was eating around midday on July 8 when Kerry drove to her house in an isolated southwest England village, prosecutor Kashif Malik
Police release man arrested on suspicion of murder of former UK minister (opens the original)
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London: British police have released the man earlier arrested on suspicion of murder of Ann Widdecombe, a former MP turned Reform UK spokeswoman. The 26-year-old man, who was arrested on Saturday morning (Australian time), has been released from custody and is no longer part of the investigation, Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement. Widdecombe, 78, was found dead on Thursday with serious injuries in her Haytor Vale home on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in south-west England. “Our
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