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\n Ann Widdecombe pictured in 2023 Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
UK POLICE ARE investigating whether the man charged with the murder of Ann Widdecombe could be linked to an alleged firebomb attack at Nigel Farage\u2019s home, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Joshua Kerry (28) has been charged with the murder of former Tory minister and Reform UK spokeswoman at her home in Devon last month.<\/p>\n
\n Ann Widdecombe pictured in 2023 Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n
First reported by The Times, counter-terrorism police are now also investigating Kerry in relation to an incident at Farage\u2019s south London home last year.<\/p>\n
The Reform UK leader told the Telegraph in April that a lit incendiary device was shoved through his letterbox in early 2025 in an \u201coutright arson attempt\u201d when he was not in.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police and Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London said they investigated an \u201cattempted burglary\u201d but no arrests were made and the case was closed pending any new lines of inquiry.<\/p>\n
After counter-terrorism police reopened the inquiry into the incident on Friday, 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 police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), is investigating the \u201cconduct\u201d of a CTP London staff member after an allegation that the employee \u201cfailed to identify and pursue a line of inquiry\u201d.<\/p>\n
At a press conference earlier on Monday, Farage said: \u201cClearly counter-terrorism made some mistakes, which is why they referred themselves to the Independent Office of Police (Conduct) (IOPC).<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand this is a completely unprecedented move, and yes, this is directly linked to the murder of Ann Widdecombe, and I\u2019m afraid I just can\u2019t tell you any more than that at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK POLICE ARE investigating whether the man charged with the murder of Ann Widdecombe could be linked to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[246308,9,10,266817,93375,13,14,6,253015,11,12,15,16,36124,5,20567,6858,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-631415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-ann-widdecombe","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-counter-terrorism-policing","tag-devon","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-joshua-kerry","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631415","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=631415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}