Murdered Widdecombe was struck with hammer 21 times, court told

The man accused of murdering former government minister Ann Widdecombe struck her 21 times on the top of her head with a hammer during the attack at her home earlier this month, prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.

Widdecombe, 78, who was a prominent figure in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK but was no longer a member of parliament, was found at her home in rural southwest England on July 9 after being attacked the day before....