A man has appeared in court charged with murdering Ann Widdecombe by hitting her 21 times on her head with a hammer. Kerry was arrested on suspicion of murder on July 11, two days after Miss Widdecombe, 78, was found dead at her bungalow in Haytor on Dartmoor, Devon. The show’s production team tried to contact Miss Widdecombe through her personal assistant, who then asked the family gardener to check on her, the court heard. Kerry then allegedly used a hammer to hit Miss Widdecombe on the top of her head 21 times, the court heard. Miss Widdecombe was first elected as a Conservative MP in Kent in 1987, was a prisons minister in the 1990s and later became an MEP for the Brexit Party.