Ring doorbell footage from Widdecombe’s home provided a crucial breakthrough for investigators, and Kerry was being questioned at a central London police station as of the latest reports.

Police consider the death potentially politically motivated and have escalated the case to Counter Terrorism investigators after a forensic review of the suspect’s devices and materials found at the scene.

A murder inquiry is underway into the death of a former MP colleague of Ann Widdecombe, with reports that the incident occurred around midday on July 8 at her Devon home.

The named suspect is Joshua Kerry, 78, from Rotherham, with police linking a large cache of newspaper clippings about Nigel Farage, Reform UK, and immigration to the case.

CCTV shows Kerry leaving his home around 8:00 a.m. and returning about 6:00 p.m., with neighbors noting an item resembling a wooden baton, and suggesting a roughly 540-mile round trip to Dartmoor.