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Ann Widdecombe thread part 3

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LuckyHazelFox · 15/07/2026 07:09

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LuckyHazelFox · 20/07/2026 19:01

Fetchthevet · 20/07/2026 18:57

He has now been charged and will appear in court tomorrow. They are still investigating the motive.
Sorry - link has failed to materialise, but I read it on the BBC News app.

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Oh thanks for that update 👍

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Fetchthevet · 20/07/2026 18:57

He has now been charged and will appear in court tomorrow. They are still investigating the motive.
Sorry - link has failed to materialise, but I read it on the BBC News app.

PoliteRaven · 20/07/2026 09:47

The Counter-Terror Assistant Commissioner spoke last week - pretty sure it was Tuesday - and said they were able to hold the suspect for up to 7 days.

It would've been quite easy to find the name anyway as the major news channels all showed video footage of police at the Rotherham address with the name of the street. I'm surprised they were allowed to show this footage before a suspect is even charged. And I'm surprised they've released his name now and it still does not say he has been charged.

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 19/07/2026 18:23

KerryWeaversSpecs · 19/07/2026 18:05

Still not much fun for the chap if he is not the culprit @Desperatelyseekinglazysusan They are taking an awfully long time to charge him. I know they have up to 14 days, but still.

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No but I doubt they care about that. Just that they can't be sued!

KerryWeaversSpecs · 19/07/2026 18:05

Still not much fun for the chap if he is not the culprit @Desperatelyseekinglazysusan They are taking an awfully long time to charge him. I know they have up to 14 days, but still.

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LuckyHazelFox · 19/07/2026 17:49

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 19/07/2026 17:47

I think they have written an entirely factual account, so unlikely there would be any consequences from this. They have been very careful.

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Telegraph has also covered it.

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Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 19/07/2026 17:47

KerryWeaversSpecs · 18/07/2026 18:38

Tbh I wouldn't share that on the small chance that he is not charged, I don't care how lawyered up the Mail is. Look at what happened to Christopher Jeffries.

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I think they have written an entirely factual account, so unlikely there would be any consequences from this. They have been very careful.

KerryWeaversSpecs · 18/07/2026 18:38

AnAutumnCrow · 18/07/2026 18:20

Here’s a link to the MailOnline article naming the suspect.

The Mail (published by ANL) is very lawyered up. Very.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15985321/former-lift-employee-questioned-Ann-Widdecombes-murder.html

Tbh I wouldn't share that on the small chance that he is not charged, I don't care how lawyered up the Mail is. Look at what happened to Christopher Jeffries.

sittingonabeach · 18/07/2026 18:25

darkandgloomy · 18/07/2026 18:22

Brave??!!

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Think that was sarcasm

darkandgloomy · 18/07/2026 18:22

LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 14:19

Seeing that pic of the suspect - what a brave big man. Easily being able to overpower a 78 year old woman.

Brave??!!

AnAutumnCrow · 18/07/2026 18:18

RedTagAlan · 18/07/2026 17:29

I wander about. But try to keep in lane when posting.

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Engineers get a free pass round All Parts MN.

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LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 17:55

HelenaWilson · 18/07/2026 17:17

RIP Ann, I didn't agree with her on most things but she didn't deserve this kind of suffering and I've been struck by how people from all over the political spectrum say she was lovely and kind to them.

I knew people who knew her when she was MP for Maidstone. They all spoke very highly of her, regardless of political views.

Maybe she was offered a peerage and declined?

She wouldn't have declined.

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RedTagAlan · 18/07/2026 17:29

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 17:21

Hello @RedTagAlan! Nice to see you on another thread apart from the Trumpington threads! 😂

Mone did a stint selling crap on the QVC shopping channel, which seems to me (wadoo I know though?) pretty undignified. I can't recall the timelines either but I think she might have got her peerage while that was going on?
Anyway, the woman's a disgrace and seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth since her downfall.

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I wander about. But try to keep in lane when posting.

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 17:21

RedTagAlan · 18/07/2026 17:08

I don't know how the dates work out, but maybe they thought a Peer should not be doing all the celeb TV stuff ?

Then again, There is Baron Sugar.

Personally, I think they go well overboard with the House of Lords. But yes, I agree that for Ann Widdecombe, the Lords would have been deserved. I would have sat her beside the Bishops,

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Hello @RedTagAlan! Nice to see you on another thread apart from the Trumpington threads! 😂

Mone did a stint selling crap on the QVC shopping channel, which seems to me (wadoo I know though?) pretty undignified. I can't recall the timelines either but I think she might have got her peerage while that was going on?
Anyway, the woman's a disgrace and seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth since her downfall.

HelenaWilson · 18/07/2026 17:17

RIP Ann, I didn't agree with her on most things but she didn't deserve this kind of suffering and I've been struck by how people from all over the political spectrum say she was lovely and kind to them.

I knew people who knew her when she was MP for Maidstone. They all spoke very highly of her, regardless of political views.

Maybe she was offered a peerage and declined?

RedTagAlan · 18/07/2026 17:08

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 16:17

My goodness that's true! Rather see Ann Widdecombe in the Lords than Michelle Mone any day of the week.

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I don't know how the dates work out, but maybe they thought a Peer should not be doing all the celeb TV stuff ?

Then again, There is Baron Sugar.

Personally, I think they go well overboard with the House of Lords. But yes, I agree that for Ann Widdecombe, the Lords would have been deserved. I would have sat her beside the Bishops,

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LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 16:29

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 16:17

My goodness that's true! Rather see Ann Widdecombe in the Lords than Michelle Mone any day of the week.

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It really came back to bite him after the PPE scandal. He played a poor hand there. He went for style over substance. Ann didn't immerse herself in scandal. On top of Mone's misdoings, Karren Brady has built her career on the back of dodgy businessmen. A really really bad call.

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TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 16:17

LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 16:15

No matter what was thought of both Thatcher and Widdecombe (Ann) ruffled the feathers of their male opposite numbers. It's disgraceful that Cameron never put forward Ann as a peer. Instead he went for two business women, whom, in my opinion, hadn't earned their spot in the Lords. Brady and Mone.

My goodness that's true! Rather see Ann Widdecombe in the Lords than Michelle Mone any day of the week.

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LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 16:15

No matter what was thought of both Thatcher and Widdecombe (Ann) ruffled the feathers of their male opposite numbers. It's disgraceful that Cameron never put forward Ann as a peer. Instead he went for two business women, whom, in my opinion, hadn't earned their spot in the Lords. Brady and Mone.

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TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 18/07/2026 15:46

I don't normally get involved in this sort of speculation but in the later pic he seems to have more hair in the sense of it has receeded less than in earlier pic. So unless he's had a hair transplant is it really the same man? I don't think it looks like him even apart from the hair, but the hairline just looks really different. And his face, what can be seen of it.
RIP Ann, I didn't agree with her on most things but she didn't deserve this kind of suffering and I've been struck by how people from all over the political spectrum say she was lovely and kind to them. We all have some bonkers views but how we actually treat others counts. So I may even have revised my view of her.

placemats · 18/07/2026 15:17

The picture the Daily Mail put up was taken Easter 2022. It bears little resemblance to the recording of him getting into the car.

TigTails · 18/07/2026 14:35

If this is at all the wrong guy the Daily Mail are toast.

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LuckyHazelFox · 18/07/2026 14:19

Seeing that pic of the suspect - what a brave big man. Easily being able to overpower a 78 year old woman.

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KerryWeaversSpecs · 18/07/2026 14:13

If he ends up not being charged with AWs murder the Mail will be in big trouble.

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