Time will tell if this horrific, brutal crime is going to be excused with the recent UK pablum of 'mental disabilities,' but, in the meantime, police are already being exposed for what they didn't want people to speculate on.
A very well-known British lady in her formidable years was found in a pool of blood in her Dartmoor cottage last Thursday. Initially, Devon and Cornwall police suspected she had taken a fall after experiencing a medical incident of some sort, but they soon changed their tune to something much darker.
England’s Devon and Cornwall police announced a murder investigation on Friday, July 10th, the day after the body of Ann Widdecombe, 78, was found at her home on Dartmoor. A 26-year-old “white man” and British national was in custody, but has since been released.
While the death was initially announced by Widdecombe’s management company, it became clear later in the day that police were treating it as suspicious. For now, terrorism, has been ruled out as a motive.
Widdecombe was a ‘Church and fete’ Tory MP who served the party in Parliament for more than two decades, including in cabinet. She then represented the now-defunct Brexit Party as a member of the European Parliament. Ultimately, she joined what Nigel Farage has described as that party’s “direct descendant,” Reform UK.
News🇬🇧⚡️: "After being called to her property in Haytor, Miss Widdecombe was discovered dead by Devon and Cornwall Police in a pool of blood, but thought that it was as a result of a medical issue".
— HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) July 13, 2026
Questions will be asked as to why the police were so quick to rule out that the… pic.twitter.com/aJBVi5Uqrd
...Questions will be asked as to why the police were so quick to rule out that the late Ann Widdecombe was not a murder victim until 24 hours later, post pathology report?
Questions will be asked as to why such a long period of time was allowed to pass, before a 'suspicious death' went to full blown murder investigation.
Devon and Cornwall Police Chief James Vaughan believes that they have displayed world class policing. I'd like to wager that there will be a massive backlash t9 this statement.
Blood behaves not unlike spilled water droplets, and the speed at which the droplets travel when they strike a surface — known to analysts as a target — affects their shape.
This speed, combined with angle and surface characteristics, also determines how far blood droplets skip or bounce after meeting a barrier.
GOD rest dear Ann Widdecombe.
Ann Widdecombe was a lightning rod figure, known and, depending on your point of view, either beloved or reviled with equal intensity. A fierce free-speech supporter...
The late, great Ann Widdecombe supported the free speech of Holocaust deniers.
— Let Gays Choose (@LetGaysChoose) July 12, 2026
Her argument at the Oxford Union is as true today as ever: opposing someone's beliefs does not mean silencing them. pic.twitter.com/plnfOCCQ5D
...her unqualified defense of that right incensed the Left...
Absolutely R.I.P Ann widdecombe ❤️🩵 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/mG90oiMbGB
— tony (macca) 🇬🇧 🏴 (@tonymc42) July 10, 2026
...and the professional grievance class.
Well said, Ann. 👇 @PeterTatchell pic.twitter.com/HXHLEab2Fv
— Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) July 11, 2026
Ann Widdecombe had helped power Brexit through and was one of Nigel Farage's most formidable weapons when she joined Reform, barnstorming the country for the new, upstart party, much as she had done for Brexit a decade ago, making lifelong new friends in the process.
...After 45 minutes of forensic grilling, during which we enjoyed a frank exchange of views, she smiled wryly, squeezed my hand and said she respected honesty and principles. She concluded in that unmistakable school ma’am voice: ‘We’d better get on with saving Brexit then.’
She went on to deliver a barnstorming speech without notes. I followed her on to the stage with a sheaf full of notes, far more nerves and far less verve. But the cheering crowd was generous to both of us. We were all on the same side on this issue at least. As I left the stage, she gave me a warm hug and, with a twinkle in her eye, said ‘you’ll do’. We never looked back.
The hate spewed the moment the Left heard of her gruesome, so horrible end.
So we’re all clear now? It’s okay to celebrate the death of an elderly woman, provided she is right-wing. It’s okay to jump on a mainstream news channel while her body is barely cold and talk about how she was a ‘spinster’, an ‘old maid’ and probably a virgin. It’s okay to call her a bigot, too. But that one probably went without saying.
You would have thought the death of Ann Widdecombe, former Tory MP turned Reform UK spokeswoman, would be treated by all as a moment of solemnity and horror. A murder investigation has now been launched, after she was found covered in blood, apparently bludgeoned to death, in her Dartmoor home, where the 78-year-old lived alone. A man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of murder, but has since been released without charge.
But even before we learned that murder was suspected, Widdecombe’s sudden death was a jolt. She might have been semi-retired, last holding office as an MEP for the Brexit Party, but the irrepressible Widdecombe was still grabbing life. The day before she was found, cut down in what should have been a place of quiet, safety and peace, she gave an interview to Talk TV. She was planning to campaign for Reform leader Nigel Farage in Clacton. Politics was her life, right up until the end.
As Rory Sutherland has noted, Widdecombe also belonged to a fast-fading line of parliamentarians – from Tony Benn to Norman Tebbit to Dennis Skinner – who were bombastic, formidable and utterly sincere; motored by duty, principle and unflappable conviction. People who would not dream of meekly reading a speech from their phone, or dispensing lines to take in the media.
Sky News’ Adam Boulton has described murdered former politician Anne Widdecombe as “spinster” and “old maid” going into detail on her private life.
— Alex Armstrong (@Alexarmstrong) July 10, 2026
Many commentators are calling this rant “vile” and “deeply misogynistic”
It’s unclear if he’s received any pushback from the… pic.twitter.com/cT3u74lFjd
I guess, as with our Left here, murder at any age is an appropriate remedy for annoying them.
Transgender Activist & Former Labour MSP Canidate Who Calls Itself Heather Herbert Posted.
— Kev London .K.media (@kevlondon4) July 12, 2026
"The Death Of Anne Widdecombe Is Good News & Hoped Her Death Was Painful!"
The Activist Apparently Works At Aberdeen University. pic.twitter.com/BIgbTBYk9x
But the government didn't want any 'speculation' about Ms. Widdecombe's death. The death that had slowly moved from natural, to 'Oops - might have been a murder,' but not terrorism, to now, as of yesterday...the terrorism unit is involved.
And they've arrested a young fellow who lived over 250 miles away from the lonely, isolated place where Ms. Widdecombe spent her time off the road.
BUT NO SPECULATION PLEASE, PEASANTS - LET PROFESSIONALS DO THEIR JOBS
...Today it has been announced that counter-terrorism cops are taking over the investigation of Ms Widdecombe’s death. The body of the veteran Tory / Reform politician was found on Thursday. Shock tore through the nation when it was later announced she had sustained serious injuries and there would be a murder investigation. But cops were quick — weirdly so — to dampen ‘speculation’ that it might have been a political killing or a terroristic act. There is ‘nothing to suggest’ it was politically motivated, they said.
To many of us, it just didn’t stack up. How could they be so sure so soon? What’s more, the first suspect they arrested – a ‘26-year-old white man’, they told us, with the emphasis on ‘white’ – was swiftly released without charge. Without a suspect, how could they decipher a motive? Then came the news of the arrest of a second suspect, and that’s when folk really started scratching their heads. He was arrested in Rotherham, more than 250 miles from Widdecombe’s home. We were expected to believe that a random from Rotherham allegedly drove across England to the exact address of a famed politician and that there was nothing to see here? Nothing to ruminate on? Nothing unnerving?
Then came the Sun’s publication of CCTV footage seeming to show the suspect getting into his car in Rotherham on the morning of Widdecombe’s death, apparently with a large wooden stick. Naturally, the Sun, too, was accused of dangerous ‘speculation’, but in truth its intrepid sourcing of the CCTV footage contributed enormously to the public’s bristling, democratic concern over this strange death in Dartmoor. Even the BBC is now saying that the Sun’s reporting was swiftly followed by today’s jolting announcement: that Widdecombe’s death is now being investigated by counter-terror cops.
It was a moral outrage to shame the masses for ‘speculating’. People have serious, burning and entirely legitimate questions about this horrific incident. They knew it didn’t feel right that a possible political motivation was so swiftly discarded. They knew it didn’t add up that a man would allegedly trek from Yorkshire to Devon and allegedly knock on the door of a Tory turned national treasure without some kind of motivation. It’s possible the demonised speculators will be vindicated following today’s announcement that ‘new information and evidence’ has been discovered, and that counter-terrorism will take over.
As opposed to most heinous crimes committed in England, police were quick off the mark to announce that the suspect was a WHITE MALE - W-H-I-T-E.
Just, you know, because it's important to be transparent when the suspect is W-H-I-T-E.
This is the suspect loading his car before he takes off on that fateful, almost 300-mile-long trip to Widdecombe's house.
Anne Widdecombe murder suspect leaving his home to drive 300 miles to her place in Devon.. pic.twitter.com/ttQi8WALcl
— Right over Left Everytime (@RightSide_Uk) July 13, 2026
The Home Secretary has just confirmed it's being treated as an act of terrorism.
The death of veteran politician Ann Widdecombe is being treated as an act of terrorism, home secretary Shabana Mahmood told MPs on Monday, July 13.
— The Independent (@Independent) July 13, 2026
A 28-year-old man, who was arrested in Rotherham on Saturday, has since been re-arrested on suspicion of terrorism. pic.twitter.com/aB9N5K1gLi
The police might want to ask the man what he had in the bin, as they seem to be a bit behind the curve.
It wouldn’t be his white coloured clothes that he was wearing to commit the brutal murder of Anne Widdecombe would it?
— Mark Pickup 🏴 (@EdmundProle) July 13, 2026
Why has nobody mentioned the colour of his clothes?
Perhaps it's because they don't want to find out.
“The whole idea of getting rid of the EU was that we should take full control of our own borders, and if we haven’t done that up till now, then we will do it the day after Nigel Farage enters No. 10 Downing Street”
— Jess Fields (@jessalanfields) July 13, 2026
- Anne Widdecombe, former MP & MEP. An iron lady for our times. pic.twitter.com/T8d7AkbrQl
I would say I think they're just relieved she's gone, however she went.
But then, I'd be speculating, you know?
And we'll have none of that.
To the woman, Catholic convert, defender of life, liberty, and fearless former member of Parliament who's been described as...
...a prominent voice for life, conscience, and moral truth in Britain’s public square.
...I can only bid her adieu and pray that she rests in peace.
And feel bad for Britain, for they surely need Ann Widdecombe's courage now.
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