{"id":62231,"date":"2026-10-07T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/joshua-kerry-in-court-charged-with-preparing-acts-of-terror-against-nigel-farage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:53:51","slug":"joshua-kerry-in-court-charged-with-preparing-acts-of-terror-against-nigel-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/joshua-kerry-in-court-charged-with-preparing-acts-of-terror-against-nigel-farage\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Kerry in court charged with preparing acts of terror against Nigel Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>The man accused of murdering the former MP Ann Widdecombe in July has appeared in court faced with a new allegation of preparing terrorist acts, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua Kerry, 28, appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court, and spoke only to confirm his address in Rotherham and his date of birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a thick beard, he wore a grey sweat shirt and trousers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was accompanied by four custody officers in the dock and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was told he faced a new charge of preparing terrorist acts between 31 May 2024 and 8 July 2026 by carrying out research on targets and travelling to, and attempting to gain entry to, the home of Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April 2025 Nigel Farage&#8217;s partner found that damage had been caused to their main front door at their house in south London. There was a bottle of lighter fluid in the porch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court also heard that Kerry is alleged to have carried out online reconnaissance of &#8220;prominent people and institutions&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckj0lj6v3g9vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man accused of murdering the former MP Ann Widdecombe in July has appeared in court faced with a new allegation of preparing terrorist acts, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Joshua Kerry, 28, appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court, and spoke only to confirm his address in Rotherham and his date of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5155,607,595,2081,938,17013,2080,10638,300],"class_list":["post-62231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-acts","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-farage","tag-joshua","tag-kerry","tag-nigel","tag-preparing","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62233,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions\/62233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}