{"id":79897,"date":"2026-07-13T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/aberdeen-university-investigates-employees-ann-widdecombe-death-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:50:21","slug":"aberdeen-university-investigates-employees-ann-widdecombe-death-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/aberdeen-university-investigates-employees-ann-widdecombe-death-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen University investigates employee&#8217;s Ann Widdecombe death comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The University of Aberdeen is investigating social media comments by an employee about the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heather Herbert, who is believed to be a web developer, had posted it was &#8220;good news&#8221; and that she hoped it was an &#8220;extremely painful death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The university said the incident, which happened before the politician&#8217;s death was treated as an alleged murder, was now under review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland said there had been no criminality in relation to the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former conservative MP, who was 78, was found dead on Thursday at her home in Haytor, Devon, having sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 28-year-old white British man has been arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8k39vz8vvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Aberdeen is investigating social media comments by an employee about the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe. Heather Herbert, who is believed to be a web developer, had posted it was &#8220;good news&#8221; and that she hoped it was an &#8220;extremely painful death&#8221;. The university said the incident, which happened before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[609,2341,717,715,11267,2220,3466,21173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79899,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79897\/revisions\/79899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}