A police probe has been launched into a former Labour candidate after she celebrated the death of Ann Widdecombe and prayed she suffered an ‘extremely painful death’.
Heather Herbert, a transgender web developer at Aberdeen University, relished in the ‘good news’ of the former Tory MP’s death in a vile post on Bluesky on July 10, one day after Ms Widdecombe was found dead with serious injuries at her cottage in Haytor on Dartmoor.
Both police and her employer launched an investigation after the comments – posted before news of the murder probe broke – were reported by members of the public.
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