{"id":561954,"date":"2026-07-22T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561954\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:06:14","slug":"ann-widdecombe-beaten-21-times-with-hammer-as-she-ate-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561954\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Widdecombe beaten 21 times with hammer as she ate lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned to death \u2013 beaten 21 times on her head with a hammer as she ate lunch, Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told the man charged with her murder, 28-year-old Joshua Kerry, walked into her home and allegedly used a hammer to hit the elderly woman on the head 21 times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned to death \u2013 beaten 21 times on her head with a hammer as she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231414,16867,42,237437,237438,21556,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-561954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ann-widdecombe","tag-hammer","tag-headlines","tag-hit-21-times","tag-joshua-kerry","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}