BRITISH COUNTER-TERROR POLICE investigating the death of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe have re-opened an old probe into an attempted burglary last year.<\/p>\n
The incident at an address in Greater London was reported in April 2025.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police and Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London investigated but no arrests were made and the case was closed pending any new lines of inquiry.<\/p>\n
Since it was re-opened, CTP London has identified a line of inquiry \u201cwhich may have been relevant\u201d but was \u201cnot identified and pursued by them at the time\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is now investigating the \u201cconduct\u201d of a CTP London staff member, following an allegation that the employee \u201cfailed to identify and pursue a line of inquiry\u201d related to the attempted burglary.<\/p>\n
Reform UK spokeswoman Widdecombe was having lunch at her home when Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, allegedly burst into her bungalow, the Old Bailey heard previously.<\/p>\n
Kerry was arrested on suspicion of murder on 11 July, two days after Miss Widdecombe, 78, was found dead at her property in Haytor on Dartmoor, Devon.<\/p>\n
He was also arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism \u2013 but he has not been charged with this offence.<\/p>\n
Senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, Vicki Evans, said: \u201cAs part of the ongoing investigation led by Counter Terrorism Policing South East into the murder of Ann Widdecombe, officers have re-opened an investigation into an incident reported to police last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cGiven the nature of this matter and the significant public interest in the investigation into Ann Widdecombe\u2019s death, it was of critical importance for us to provide this update.\u201d<\/p>\n
CTP London made a \u201cmandatory conduct referral\u201d to the IOPC on Friday.<\/p>\n
An IOPC spokesperson said: \u201cWe can confirm that the IOPC has decided to independently investigate the conduct of a Counter Terrorism Policing London staff member following a referral received earlier today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conduct relates to an allegation the individual failed to identify and pursue a line of enquiry relating to an attempted burglary reported in April 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cCounter Terrorism Policing London has been notified of our decision, and no further information is available at this early stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRITISH COUNTER-TERROR POLICE investigating the death of former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe have re-opened an old probe into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[246308,9,10,57794,264384,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,130,15,16,5,264385,20566,7,8,1294],"class_list":["post-626236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ann-widdecombe","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-conservative-party","tag-counter-terror-police","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-london","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-re-opened-investigation","tag-reform-uk","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117057030395042683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}