Former UK minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, 78, is alleged to have been killed in a planned attack in which prosecutors say she was struck on the head with a hammer 21 times. Multiple outlets report that Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, appears before Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on murder charges. The reporting also states that Kerry was arrested on suspicion of murder on 11 July, two days before Widdecombe was found dead at her bungalow in Haytor on Dartmoor in Devon. Prosecutors describe the violence as deliberate and repeated, and cite the number of hammer blows in court. Some accounts describe Kerry as also having been charged with offences related to acts of terror while in custody, but the articles consistently focus on the murder charge and the allegations about how Widdecombe died. Across the reports, the motive remains unclear, and the matters are presented as allegations pending the legal process.