By David Milliken and Preetika Parashuraman, Reuters<\/p>\n
A man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering of British politician Ann Widdecombe has now been released and is no longer part of the investigation, police say.<\/p>\n
Widdecombe was found dead at her home in rural southwest England on Thursday. Police said she had suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The 78-year-old was known for her socially conservative views, first as a junior minister in John Major’s Conservative government from 1992 to 1997, and latterly as an immigration and justice spokesperson for Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK.<\/p>\n
News of her death led to tributes from across the political spectrum in Britain, including from Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Devon and Cornwall Police said a 26-year-old man had been arrested and would remain in custody while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, however, they said the suspect had been released.<\/p>\n
“The arrest formed part of a fast-moving investigation launched in response to the serious incident,” Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman said.<\/p>\n
“Detectives continue to carry out numerous enquiries as part of the ongoing investigation and we remain committed to establishing the full circumstances surrounding the incident.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By David Milliken and Preetika Parashuraman, Reuters A man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering of British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-520801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}