Murdered In Her Own Home | Trending Ep373

An elderly woman is murdered in her own home, raising difficult questions about the investigation and the official response. Jaymie looks at the killing of former MP Ann Widdecombe, why police were quick to rule out a political motive, and the unanswered questions that remain. He also examines claims linking thousands of deaths to recent heatwaves, the latest developments in the proposed deportation of the Rochdale grooming gang leader, and the growing use of AI instead of human creatives.

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Anne Whitakham, deportations, climate change, and artificial intelligence. That Plus Moore on this morning's episode. Right, we're gonna start with the biggest story of the weekend. The murder, originally just originally announced as the death, and then very quickly afterwards announced the murder of former Conservative MP and political figure here in the UK, Anne Whiticum. She was murdered in our home on Wednesday down in Devon, and it's taken the country by shock because when you strip back the fact that she was a political figure, you strip back the fact that she was obviously an MP, she was well known, she had a profile, she had very strong opinions, and as a result, there was people that liked her, there was people that didn't like her, and all of that. When you strip that back for a second, what's happened is a 78-year-old woman has been brutally murdered in her own home in a very rural, affluent, peaceful, calm area of the country. You know, in an interview a few uh weeks ago that surfaced obviously this week, she spoke about the fact that you wouldn't see a soul for days if you didn't want to in that part of the world. So it's a very, very quiet, peaceful, slow lifestyle pace area of the country. And now it's being taken over by the media, by police, and so on because of what has happened on Wednesday. And forget the politics. An old lady has been murdered in their own home. Now, just put yourself in the situation for a second. If that happened in your street, if that happened in your town, in your village, that a 78-year-old elderly lady was an elderly person, doesn't have to be a lady, was murdered in their own home. You'd be absolutely in a state of shock, in a state of despair, in a state of dismay as to what's happened. So I think it's very important to highlight that because when things like this happen, people always look at the person. They always look at what that person stood for, who they were. And quite often, and I have no doubt, there'll be people in the UK, people across the world, who don't like the opinions or didn't like the opinions of Anne Whitakum, who will think, well, she had it come in. There will be people with that mindset, which I would never understand, I have to say, because somebody's opinions can differ from yours. That's fine, that's what makes the world go round. But you shouldn't wish ill on that person. But there will be people that will be saying, you know, who cares? Hell's got someone else. There will be people with that mindset, just like there was people when Charlie Kirk died, if you believe he did, that were saying the same thing. So let's just remind ourselves of that fact for a second that an elderly person has been brutally murdered in their own home, which is that the foundation of this story, and that should not be forgotten just because of who this person is. So coming into who this person is, Anne Whittakom is a very divisive figure, she had very strong opinions. You were never under any illusion as to what she thought about something you have to say. And I think I had respect for the fact that whatever she spoke about, whatever she said, I believe she believed it. I don't think she was necessarily somebody who was bought and paid for and selling a certain thing. You had a sense of authenticity about her, whether you liked what she said or what she didn't. I think she believed it. Um, she's obviously been campaigning more recently for reform and for Nigel Farage, which is a bit of a red flag, I suppose. Um, she's not an active MP anymore, but she was still very active in terms of the political conversation. She'd done an interview on Talk TV that morning on Wednesday, just a few hours before she was killed. But this whole story to me is incredibly bizarre. So initially, they arrested a 26-year-old man in Newton Abbott down in Dartmoor. He was released very quickly afterwards, and it was uh announced that he was no longer part of their investigation. And then on, I think it was Sunday, sorry, Saturday, they arrested a 28-year-old man up in Rotherham, which is nearly 300 miles away from where she was killed. This man's now been charged, or is in the process of being charged. There's CCTV footage that show him arriving and leaving his home on the morning of the Wednesday with a long foot-long pole, which he was concealing under a t-shirt. He's described by neighbours as a bit of a recluse who said that his dad died last year, and since then he's become more and more insular, and you don't really see him. And he drove 275 miles to kill her to then return and was arrested at his home address. So it's very strange when you read that part of it, and then the next story says that there's nothing to suggest that this was politically motivated or had any links to terrorism. Well, the question is then well, why did he do it? Because if you're making a conclusion that you don't think this is politically motivated or terrorism related, when you've got a very outspoken and very, in many people's minds, controversial and divisive political figure who's been murdered in their own home, and you're saying it's not politically motivated, okay. So then you've got to come out, I think, with some kind of counter to that of, well, we don't believe it was politically motivated because we think this is what's happened. We think X, Y, and Z. Did they know each other? Was this a personal grievance that this man had? That's another potential conclusion. Because if you're not looking at that, you're not looking at politically motivated crimes, and you're not looking at terror-related, why has he done this? If if this is uh a psychopath who wanted to harm somebody, why has he driven 300 miles to harm an old lady in her home? Why is he not just driven down to Rotherham High Street and picked someone at random? That that doesn't really make sense. So looking at that story, I'm a little bit confused as to exactly what there it is that they are trying to say, essentially. Um so he was seen leaving his home early on Wednesday morning, getting into what's described as a run-down vehicle. Now, if you go down the timeline, as you can see here, on Wednesday morning at eight o'clock, she appeared on Talk TV via video link for an interview. At nine o'clock, a garage manager in the village that she is in has alerted the police to a suspicious Volkswagen golf parked in a strange place as it's described near her home. Now, it's about a five-hour drive, I would say, from Rotherham to where she was in Dartmoor. So if earlier in the story, as I say, the guy who has been arrested now left his home on Wednesday morning and was seen and spotted by neighbours, for that car that was spotted at 9am to be his, he would have had to leave his house around 4am. Now I'm gonna assume that if he had left his house at around 4am, neighbours wouldn't have spotted him leaving because nobody really is awake at 4am. So I don't think that car could have been his. That's just a a sort of a basic conclusion based on those two pieces of evidence. Now I might be completely wrong, but I that would that would suggest that. So that car it would suggest is not involved, and also it's described as a rundown car, the car he was driving. They've not described it as a make or a model, which if you are a neighbour and you're you know that person lives there for quite a while, you'll probably know what model of car they have because it's the same car that you would expect to have been there for a considerable amount of time. If it's just someone staying overnight at a hotel, for example, you're probably not going to know their car. But if it's a neighbour and they've lived there for a while, they will probably know at least the colour of the car and probably the model. So she was last heard from at 12.19 pm when she replied to a text which said received panic over. And she was in conversation at the time with a Channel 5 news researcher ahead of a scheduled appearance later that day. Police believe just 10 minutes after that, at 12:30, is when she was murdered. At 12.48, the researcher sent a text which was never opened and then followed up multiple times with phone calls, which obviously were never answered. She failed to join the meeting for her interview. Uh sorry, failed to join the uh zoom meeting, the zoom link for her interview, obviously at 1.25 that day, and Wednesday evening producers told her agent that they'd lost contact with her. Thursday morning, an alarm was raised when friends were unable to contact her, and at 11.40am, the police discovered her body. This was announced on Friday that she had died, and then very quickly afterwards it was announced that they were investigating her death as murder. So, as I say, when you strip it back to the top, an elderly lady has been murdered in our own home. Brutally as well. If you're killing somebody with a foot-long pole, that's a brutal and barbaric way to take somebody's life, which take all the politic politics out of it, that's what's happened. Now, this is still very, very early in the investigation. It's still very early in terms of concluding what's happened. So I'm not going to do that because I'd be very foolish to think I know exactly what's happened here, because I don't. Nobody does. People close to it would have a much better idea, and there's still almost certainly a lot more information to come out about this. But the questions I would have initially are: if this is not politically motivated and you're confident enough as the police to announce that just a couple of days after you've started an investigation into this, then they've got to have what or they've got to have what they think is considerable evidence to prove what a motive is then. Because quite often we see the mainstream of everything in any context come out and say, look, this is definitely not what's happened. But they don't then give you a counter of okay, this is what's happened. So the the the a good one to completely segue is vaccines don't cause autism. Okay. What does then? Why the rise? Why the exponential rise? They never answer that question. So if you're concluding that this is not a politically motivated attack, what is it then? And that's what needs to be answered because that's what is going to, for other people in politics, going to probably have a lot of people on edge of are politicians being targeted? People that have strong opinions, are they going to be on edge now because they think there's people out there vigilante types who target people for their opinions? You know, that they've got to conclude and come out and announce, if you're going to say it's not this, then tell us what it is, then, or what you think it is at least. And then people can make their own conclusions based on what you're telling them. At the moment, you're telling them nothing. You're telling them what's not happened or what you think hasn't happened, not what you think has. So I guess through the course of this week, you'd expect to hear more. Uh, this person will either be formally charged or they won't be. Um, all the evidence and all the conversation coming out suggests he will be formally charged. And at that point, usually a bit more information will come out as to why they think this person did it and what they think his motivations were. So throughout the course of uh this week on trending, we will continue to update on this and we will continue to uh to ask questions and try and understand exactly what has happened here. But as I said, ultimately somebody has lost their life, somebody's family members, mum, grandma has lost their life, and I think that's what gets forgotten quite a lot when it comes to political and celebrity people with profiles that lose their lives is that they're they're real people ultimately at the end of the day, and uh real people with real loved ones around them. So thoughts go out to anyone close to Anne Whittackum, and uh hopefully, whatever the motivation was behind taking her life, the person will face some justice. Right, if you're watching with us on YouTube or Twitter, head over to iconic.com. We're gonna talk about climate change, which apparently has cost the lives of two and a half thousand people this year in the UK. Evidence for that? Absolutely nothing. Also going to talk about um Sabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, who has announced that she will set out a plan to deport the Rotherham grooming gang leader. We covered the story a couple of weeks ago. He was being released from prison and there was no scope for him to be deported. Well, apparently the backlash has been so big that that may well have changed. And finally, in Yorkshire, local councils are in hot water for using AI to create imagery to celebrate the town's 400th anniversary rather than using local creative people. Is that a sign of things to come? I'll see you on iconic.com.

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