A police officer stands outside the house of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor(Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images) Former MP and Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe was found dead at her home, with her body left undiscovered for 24 hours. Investigators say the 78-year-old was found in a pool of her own blood inside the kitchen of her remote Dartmoor bungalow. The ex-Tory minister was last seen during an interview for Talk TV at around 8am on Wednesday. But she then failed to appear on Channel 5’s Matt Allwright show just a few hours later at 1pm. A TV researcher sent her a message at 12.48pm requesting she join a Zoom call, but there was no reply, and her phone went unanswered. A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but he has since been released from custody, Devon and Cornwall