Neighbours of a man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Ann Widdecombe have broke their silence after police swooped.

The man was arrested yesterday in South Yorkshire, nearly 300 miles away from Ann's Dartmoor home.

Courtney Foster, 25, who lives on the road in the town’s Kimberworth Park suburb, told the Telegraph that the young man who had been arrested rarely left the property.

“He rarely comes out of the house, his dad used to do everything for him and I don’t know what he did for a living,” she said. “I think once his dad died he went a bit loopy.”