{"id":687033,"date":"2026-07-12T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687033\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:26:08","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murdering-former-uk-minister-ann-widdecombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687033\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Former UK Minister Ann Widdecombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July \u206011 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060British police \u2060said on \u200bSaturday \u200cthat a \u200c28-year-old \u2060man was \u2060arrested in South Yorkshire \u200bon \u200bsuspicion of the \u2060murder of \u2060Ann \u2060Widdecombe, a \u200b78-year-old former government \u200bminister.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060suspect \u2060is a white British national and \u2060is now in police custody, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u2060by Gursimran Kaur; in Bengaluru; Editing \u200bby Chizu \u200bNomiyama)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See \u2013 June 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/june-26-pyss-u01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman's hand presses against a plastic sheet used to replace the shattered glass of a balcony door damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hassan Ammar)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July \u206011 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060British police \u2060said on \u200bSaturday \u200cthat a \u200c28-year-old \u2060man was \u2060arrested in South Yorkshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[228987,924,591,59,57,58,50,48404,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-687033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-collections-world","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-reuters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}