LONDON: British prosecutors said Monday they had charged a 28-year-old UK man, Joshua Kerry, with the murder of veteran right-wing former MP Ann Widdecombe, as police probed a potential “political or terrorist connection.”
“We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe,” said Frank Ferguson from the Crown Prosecution Service.
“Police enquiries into the defendant’s motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection,” Ferguson said, after counter-terror police joined the investigation.
Widdecombe, a spokesperson for the far-right Reform UK party and a former Conservative minister, was found dead in her home in Devon, southwest England on July 9 after sustaining “serious injuries.”
Police previously said the murder was a “targeted attack.”
