Or the British security services have finally learned from the Americans how to groom mentally ill people, give them a weapon or a bomb and point them towards someone or someplace. Oven-ready terrorist.
Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Taylor said it remained the case that investigators were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
He added that counter terrorism teams have gathered “a huge amount of information” over the last week, leading to more than 800 lines of enquiry.
Yeah that doesn’t add up.
This man travels a significant distance to kill a no longer politically active non-high ranking politician. The police openly admit they don’t have a motive and yet they feel confident enough to arrest him on charges of terrorism. But also despite the fact that they don’t know the why they do know they’re not looking for anyone else?
I suspect what’s happened is that this idiot was on a watch list, he managed to give them the slip and went and killed her, for reasons that probably only makes sense to him, and now they’re trying to cover up their screw up, so now he’s a terrorist. He’s probably just bonkers, People tend to focus their delusions on important figures like politicians, I knew someone who was utterly convinced that Tony Blair was hiding information in his speeches specifically for him.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 days ago
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
And they pointed him at an irrelevant retired politician?
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’m in “pure paranoid conspiracy mode” here and wearing a tin foil hat… but there’s something of a synchronicity about Farage trying to use his personal safety as a justification for the £millions he’s been gifted. The media’s interest in that has certainly diminished since Widdecomb’s death. But, like I say, I’m in zany nut case mode and in a rational world of decent men and women stuff like this never happens.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Ita possible they found a piece of paper saying “palastine action” in his flat
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Couldn’t stop at murder, he had to be progressive too.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
She wasn’t quite retired, she was the spokesperson on justice and immigration for Reform.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 days ago
She was still a high-ranking official of the Reform Party.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
They’ve since clarified that he appears to have supported Jeremy Corbyn and identified as a communist. It’s quite terrifying.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yes, if they really thought he were a terrorist they would be looking for his accomplices in order to prevent the next attack. But the word “terrorist” is thrown around by UK authorities as a matter of convenience these days.