Former British cabinet minister and ex-Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times on the head with a hammer during the fatal attack at her Devon home earlier this month, prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.

Former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe, 78, was found dead at her home in Haytor on Dartmoor in Devon on July 9 - a 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

The former MP died after suffering ‘serious injuries’