Intrigued that theyve charged him with terrorism, but still dont say anything about the motive.
Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe
Submitted 5 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4n2erympvo
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FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Red5@lemmygrad.ml 4 days ago
After the Palestine Action crackdowns, anything can be terrorism
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That guy looks older then 28, damn.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fr. That man is 47 and you will not convince me otherwise.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
Pub life, not even once
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Brits tend to follow the late 70s male aesthetic.
Babalugats@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I “qwanted” the name to see if anything turned up, was pretty confident that his footprint would have been wiped, but somebody on twatter/eggs has put up some of it.
x.com/grok/status/2078826071969997025
@grok
Replying to @RestoreNationGB and @PolitlcsUK RestoreNationGB Limited public online footprint. Joshua Kerry (28, Rotherham) described by neighbours as quiet/shy; former lift company worker, lived alone post-father’s death.
Main trace: Signed a 2025 open letter for Jeremy Corbyn/Zarah Sultana’s “Your Party” (listed ~1505th, Rotherham, no occupation).
Communist/Russian material reportedly found on devices/home. Counter-terror police cite targeted attack + planning; re-arrested under Terrorism Act.
Farage states (on “good authority”) Kerry was hard-left activist who attended marches, expressed hatred of him multiple times, obsessed with Soviet communism. No specific public posts/quotes from Kerry widely reported yet. No confirmed organised group membership beyond the letter signature.
Investigation ongoing; presumption of innocence. Details may emerge.
12:55 PM · Jul 19, 2026 252 **
eleijeep@piefed.social 4 days ago
You’re posting grok output as if it somehow contributes to the conversation?
Babalugats@feddit.uk 4 days ago
No, I didn’t realise it was grok output until after I posted, so I posted how and where the info came from. But the way it’s worded, I’m sure is very easy to look up and clarify. At the end of the day, ai is just a glorified search engine, often built with a bias purpose in mind, but in that instance, it’s just a search result.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Well I assumed he was going to be unhinged. Obviously you shouldn’t go around murdering people, even people you don’t like, but if you are going to go around murdering people you don’t like, you should probably start with a more worthy target than Anne Whittaker who let’s be honest, has never been exactly politically relevant.
unknown@piefed.social 4 days ago
Oh look, it’s a white guy. What a surprise.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I mean… Yeah? This is the UK, the vast majority of people are white. Statistically its very likely to be someone white.
unknown@piefed.social 3 days ago
That’s my point. All the daily heil deformers were on about how it had to be a brown person and how immigrants are all criminals, and once again the actual culprit turned out to be one of theirs, another white british guy.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Next supprise will be he is actually a crazy ringwing nut job who is upset she said something that was not right wing enough!
That seams to be the pattern of attempts on rightwing politicians’ lives.
tangentism@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Jo Cox wasn’t right wing (more a centrist) but because the nutjobs justification was that because she didn’t use dehumanising language to describe immigrants, he found that upsetting.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
looks like the guy who runs the kiwifarms web site.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Looks like the hairy biker that died.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
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.
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.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 days ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
And they pointed him at an irrelevant retired politician?
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.