The murder of 78-year-old Ann Widdecombe in her own home has sent shockwaves throughout the country. Her idyllic-seeming home surrounded by the sun-baked Devon countryside is surely the last place you’d expect a hideously violent attack of the kind she was subject to last week.
For many elderly women, her death comes as a frightening reminder of the vulnerability of living alone.
Thankfully, though home intrusion and burglary is common (a burglary occurs every two to three minutes in the UK) it is vanishingly rare to be murdered by a stranger in your own home.
Yet women – and men – can take
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