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Ann Widdecombe was hit on the head with a hammer 21 times at her home as she ate lunch in an attack that was caught on camera
damn, what was she eating that was so good? personally, id probably stop eating lunch after the 2nd or 3rd hit to my head with a hammer.
It's telling that they won't tell us what she was eating.
Rich British woman? Probably a cucumber sandwich. Except with like caviar or summat like that.
okay but is the hammer okay? 
Still waiting for ANY kind of comment on his motivation. Right now it's just chaos of propaganda being pushed by the right that it was an extreme left terror attack blah blah blah.
If it was I think he could've gone after someone more important. Why her?
Adventurism doesn't always target the most important person in a chain of command, but instead balances that ambition with accessibility. People in more active and prominent positions are more likely to be formally protected. It may just be that poor old Ann was the unlucky combination of culpable and reachable given the means available. 
Wait are we sure she wasn't secretly a nail?
Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead
Honestly, I was thinking of that Lizzie Borden rhyme when I heard the amount of times, but hey, this Beatles song I just listened to works as well
Oh no that's horrible what a terrible shame, really guys, I'm serious. Guys
a wild Egg appears
reach out to your closest demon or infernal beast. Hell lost a real one, make sure the ghouls in your life are handling the news okay.
Waow
Taking looksmaxxing to the extreme
Joshua Kerry, 28
mogged
Oh this isn't the missing newscaster's mom
Nah they already recovered that corpse.
where'd you see that? afaict Guthrie's body has not been recovered
Oh I guess I was just conflating it with the ransom note saying she died almost immediately after she was kidnapped.
why would you put that in a ransom note?? I haven't followed this case except to know they've got nothing
Yeah my interest has been zero and have mostly picked things up through osmosis
It seemed like a fake ploy to distract the populace.
Not enough?
vikas music sadly hasn't released a commemorative track so you'll just have to listen to this and substitute "dick" for "anne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHk5Dq5lfs
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: