{"id":91893,"date":"2026-07-15T07:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91893"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:57:38","slug":"police-say-ann-widdecombe-killed-in-targeted-attack-as-motive-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/police-say-ann-widdecombe-killed-in-targeted-attack-as-motive-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say Ann Widdecombe killed in &#8216;targeted attack&#8217; as motive investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/1d52\/live\/88602e00-8011-11f1-bee8-53ce494e1abc.jpg\" alt=\"A head and shoulders crop of Widdecombe shows her looking to the left of frame while sitting in an audience at a Brexit Party rally at the Emmanuel Centre in London in 2019.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ann Widdecombe was killed in a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d and detectives are still working to understand the motive, police have said.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0ryr74zjzvo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ann Widdecombe was killed in a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d and detectives are still working to understand the motive, police have said.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Anne-Widdecombe1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91894,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91893\/revisions\/91894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}