Ann Widdecombe has died, murder suspected
 

Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory minister, has died
Ann Widdecombe, the former minister, MP and MEP, has died aged 78, her representative says.


https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...arage-12593360


Former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe dies aged 78
The former minister, MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe has died aged 78.

A long-time Conservative politician, she later joined the Brexit Party in 2019, which then became Reform UK.

She also gained public attention for her time on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

Widdecombe was born in 1947 and entered parliament in 1987 representing the seat of Maidstone in Kent.

She had previously served as a councillor and worked for the Conservative Party.

Under John Major she was an employment minister and then prisons minister.

Widdecombe stood down from parliament in 2010, as the Tories returned to government.

She then re-entered politics in 2019 as a Brexit Party MEP.

In the 2019 general election, she stood again for Westminster in the seat of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport for Nigel Farage's party, but she finished a distant third behind the Tories and Labour.

Thats very sad.. Alot of ppl are leaving us :(

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Icon. RIP

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Police investigate circumstances of Ann Widdecombe's 'suspicious' death amid fears she was murdered at Devon home

I hope this isn't true..

https://www.dailymail.com/news/artic...bes-death.html

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Interesting development.

Pretty sure that the lunchtime news said that she was 70, but everyone else says 78.

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Oh no!

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Breaking: POLICE have launched a murder probe following Ann Widdecombe’s tragic death and are looking for a “white male”.

The 78-year-old former Tory minister turned Reform UK politician was found dead at her Dartmoor home in Devon, on Thursday.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/397143...ce-suspicious/

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Yep, on the BBC site as well, without the annoying "pay to display".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp9l8l05vxet

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Police statement 26 year old white British male arrested on suspicion of murder

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They have since been released.

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Not just released, but the police made a point of saying that they (whoever they were) is no longer being investigated. So not just a case of ‘insufficient evidence’ but more, ‘we are convinced that this person had nothing to do with it’.

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Indeed. This evenings news has just said that they are looking for a white male.

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Another arrest

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Police said on Radio 4 today that the reason that it was being treated as a murder wasn't initially mentioned was because they wanted to tell her family first, as is protocol.

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This is so sad, Why oh why !