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Yeah that doesn't add up.
This man travels a significant distance to kill a no longer politically active non-high ranking politician. The police openly admit they don't have a motive and yet they feel confident enough to arrest him on charges of terrorism. But also despite the fact that they don't know the why they do know they're not looking for anyone else?
I suspect what's happened is that this idiot was on a watch list, he managed to give them the slip and went and killed her, for reasons that probably only makes sense to him, and now they're trying to cover up their screw up, so now he's a terrorist. He's probably just bonkers, People tend to focus their delusions on important figures like politicians, I knew someone who was utterly convinced that Tony Blair was hiding information in his speeches specifically for him.
Yes, if they really thought he were a terrorist they would be looking for his accomplices in order to prevent the next attack. But the word "terrorist" is thrown around by UK authorities as a matter of convenience these days.
She wasn't quite retired, she was the spokesperson on justice and immigration for Reform.
Or the British security services have finally learned from the Americans how to groom mentally ill people, give them a weapon or a bomb and point them towards someone or someplace. Oven-ready terrorist.
And they pointed him at an irrelevant retired politician?
I'm in "pure paranoid conspiracy mode" here and wearing a tin foil hat... but there's something of a synchronicity about Farage trying to use his personal safety as a justification for the £millions he's been gifted. The media's interest in that has certainly diminished since Widdecomb's death. But, like I say, I'm in zany nut case mode and in a rational world of decent men and women stuff like this never happens.
She was still a high-ranking official of the Reform Party, and had been publicly executing that role hours before her murder.
Its possible they found a piece of paper saying "palastine action" in his flat
Couldn't stop at murder, he had to be progressive too.
They've since clarified that he appears to have supported Jeremy Corbyn and identified as a communist. It's quite terrifying.