Anne Widdicombe Suspicious Death

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Suspicious death, suspected murder. Think there is a press conference soon.

A long time ago when I was a baby reporter I interviewed Ann Widecombe. She was Prisons Minister at the time, but it wasn't the story about pregnant prisoners being shackled. The only thing I remember about the job was that she was unfailingly courteous to me.

What about this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61160971

Hear hear 👏

Or someone with a mental illness. A few years ago in Northern Ireland, a guy who had just been released from some facility walked into an elderly couple's home in the middle of the day and killed them both. (I read the other day that he's due to be released from prison which is a horrific thought.) I'm sure Anne was very security-conscious given her position, but equally these are long summer evenings and she may have left a door open to the garden etc. Horrible thought for anyone with elderly parents, that they can't let their guard down for a minute.

A handful of people on social media and suddenly the left are all awful people, as if people on the right are never arseholes. Plenty of obnoxious right wingers online.

And let's not forget we had a Conservative Prime Minister egging this sort of behaviour on - I'll never forget Boris Johnson being begged to tone down his rhetoric about Brexit in the light of death threats to MPs using his wording, he doubled down and dismissed concerns - and this was only a few years after the murder of Jo Cox.

I agree. Heather or whatever his name is. Various other twitter comments.

Very sad news. She was certainly a character. My brother had to show her round a prison when she was prisons minister and said she was very courteous.

Never did any of us think that Jess Philips would be reading out her name in Parliament for all the wrong reasons. Another woman killed by a man.

Loads of comments here about how it was just free speech
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3416216-Grenfell-joke

That poor lady to die like that no matter what her politics were. She must have been so frightened Just awful.

I think I read somewhere that Ian Huntley was on the VP wing at HMP Frankland - that obviously didn't help him, his killer was also on the same wing.

I also read recently that the Sikh guy who killed Henry Nowak is also now at HMP Frankland and is refusing to move from segregation to the VP wing where Ian Huntley was killed.

I haven't RTFT, but regardless of some of her perhaps more extreme conservative views, she was a brilliant local MP and did so much for the community.

There's an overwhelming number of positive stories on the local news FB page, including from a lady who she'd supported and helped find somewhere to live after escaping DV. Apparently she kept in touch afterwards.

She came to our girls' grammar school in the 90s and gave an amazing, inspirational talk. I thought she was a great politician, very honest, diplomatic and measured.

Shocking. Poor lady.
So very fed up of reading about male violence against women.

Never did any of us think that Jess Philips would be reading out her name in Parliament for all the wrong reasons. Another woman killed by a man.

I know, that came to my mind too.

Unbelievably shocking.

How long have you been hoping for her death then.

What??

💯 this

The intro to her autobiography says 'one of the pleasures of retirement is that you never know what might happen next' - what an awful end - whether you agree with her politics or not she was a female minister at a time when women made up only around 9–10% of MPs in the House of Commons, that's quite a brilliant achievement.

What a load of ai produced b*llocks. This adds nothing to the conversation.

I wrote to her when I was a teenager about society's views on certain health issues and got a very kind and personalised response. It sounded like Ann so I don't think it was just some assistant who wrote back!

There are main prisoners on VP wings and I guess even other sex offenders want money, fame etc too.

I guess segregation is the only place where they’re truly safe from other prisoners.

They shouldn’t get a choice.
Segregation is meant to be a punishment imposed on them.

Yes, that must be it. It's the most logical and obvious conclusion 🙄

What?

No they are not “innocent until proven guilty”. They are PRESUMED innocent until proven guilty. You can’t be innocent until proven guilty. You’re either guilty or innocent all along.

I really agree with your post.
Very sadly, why happens irl doesn’t match up with your last paragraph.