Ann Widdecombe ‘struck with hammer 21 times’, court hears

The man charged with murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe is accused of hitting her 21 times with a hammer and taking her wallet, a court heard.

A camera positioned in the hallway showed the 78-year-old politician sitting down eating lunch in the kitchen before the defendant allegedly entered via the front door and asked her: “Don’t suppose you have bank cards and ID?”

He is then alleged to have struck her 21 times on the head with the hammer before tipping her out of her chair and on to the floor.

A provisional cause of death was given as a “blunt force injury to the head”, the court heard.

At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Kerry was remanded in custody by Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

He was told to appear at the same court on 9 October for a case management hearing, with a further plea and trial preparation hearing on 20 November. A provisional trial date was listed for 8 June 2027.

Announcing the charges on Monday, Counter Terrorism Policing head Laurence Taylor said that establishing whether the attack was politically motivated remains an “active avenue of investigation”.

Imagery and training programmes like these below do not help conduct of a previously peaceful society. 

This is from The Telegraph. A militant transgender group has urged supporters to target Wes Streeting’s office as part of a direct action campaign.

In a guide distributed to activists, Bash Back instructs them to cause “direct harm” with “lasting effect”. (motto – When TERFs attack, what do we do? We bash back. It should be noted that they regard ‘attack’ as refusal to accept that humans can change sex; no violence by a ‘TERF is required) 

Borrowing the methods of direct action campaigns organised by pro-Palestinian and environmental activists, the group is urging supporters to identify “transphobic” targets and then “hit them repeatedly until they desist from their activities”.

Under a photograph of Wes Streeting’s constituency headquarters, the guide states: “Examples of good targets include offices of transphobic MPs and organisations (eg Sex Matters, the EHRC, Free Speech Union (FSU) party conferences)… and the property of transphobic public intellectuals.”

And this is from the Instagram account of a Palestine support group, admittedly in New York but I believe the training programme is globalised and sessions also take place in Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also here – use in practice. And I must give credit to Andy Ngo for first making the connection on X