Police investigating death of Ann Widdicombe

[GoodHonest]

Very strange

I guess there's a chance it could be political. Like when that right wing nut job killed Jo Cox. 🙁 The police don't seem to think it is at this stage though.

I think possibly you don't know many left leaning people or many immigrants.

Do you think they are waiting until tomorrow to announce news of an arrest rather then before the football for fear of riots? I think so.

I keep thinking of Anne and this case, moreso then any recent news story. It's just so horrible and shocking. It has really upset us.

Why would there be riots?

To be honest this wouldn’t surprise me. There has been speculation locally that an arrest was coming as all of a sudden multiple unmarked police cars headed off up the fuel carriageway at lightning speed. Followed moments later by more marked cars and a response van. That was at lunchtime today.
Of course it could be unrelated but we don’t get a lot of this type of police activity round here. So it definitely felt unusual.

If England lose tensions are high etc. There was rioting recently on other murder cases

The police specified 'white British male' so people wouldn't jump to other conclusions, ie minorities, other fair game ethnicities which would be followed by the inevitable riots and civil unrest.

I'd thought that was pretty obvious.

I work with the elderly. Many of whom live alone in similar sorts of remote locations. They particularly have been very anxious and unsettled since the news first broke.

Feel silly now?

Why would football fans riot over the murder of AW? The murderer is allegedly a white male so even the racists wouldn't have anything to riot about, unlike the cases you are alluding to.

She had close friends who were gay. She wasn't homophobic, she was just opposed to gay marriage for the same reasons she was opposed to women priests and abortion. I don't agree with her on any of those things but she had deeply held principles and she stuck to them.

What makes you say she was a racist?

and it's ok if I quote you on that?

Quote me on what and to whom? Clive?

While this is obviously speculation, it seems very unlikely to me that an elderly woman living rurally in a quiet part of the country would be murdered by a random person in her own home. I would be pretty surprised if it doesn't turn out to be someone who disliked her political views (I'm in no way suggesting that person would be an immigrant, just to be clear).

Unfortunately, regarding police statements about it not being political, a lot of people, including me, these days distrust initial police statements until further corroborating information is released.

The police have just widened the cordon around the house. Now a good 200m in all directions.

Whom on earth is going to riot over the death of Anne Widdicombe? That’s just ludicrous.

But people know they always do this, and so don"t believe them, the person was released without charge anyway!

Released AFTER the police said they were looking for a white British man.

She was dead for 24 hours before being found and lived alone, what are they basing the description on?

That’s weird, the link no longer works

Security cameras maybe?

Did you check the time and date I posted that? Not the ‘own’ you think that was.

Oh, I know, they've long since moved on to the next boneheaded remark when you've proved them wrong.

I think it’s a sad reflection on some sections of society who celebrate the murder of an elderly woman in their own home. Maybe they should take time to reflect on that.

Latest news is they are not releasing CCTV images or a description, strange if they had a white British male showing his face on camera as he went into the house to kill her?