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Aberdeen University worker charged over Ann Widdecombe death comments

  • An Aberdeen University employee has been arrested and charged over social-media comments about former MP Ann Widdecombe after police reopened the online-post complaint.
  • Police Scotland initially said there was no criminality but later confirmed an investigation and that a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
  • Separately, Widdecombe’s death is being treated as a targeted attack; the murder suspect was re-arrested on terrorism-related suspicion and a counter-terrorism probe is running alongside the murder inquiry.
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