Does a video show Ann Widdecombe murder suspect Joshua Kerry giving a speech at a communist rally praising mass murderers Stalin and Lenin? No, that's not true: The man in the video is named Joshua Covel. He is clearly identified in the video by name. He is credited in the caption as representing Red Youth, the militant youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Covel appears in several videos posted online discussing politics. He is not Joshua Kerry, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Widdecombe, who was a member of Parliament.
The claim appeared in a July 22, 2026, post on the X account @shillitz (archived here). It opened:
🚨For me the bottom picture is a match..
Not sure who the other two are? Video has emerged of Joshua speaking at a communist rally. Keep digging! Keep asking questions! Ann Widdecombe deserves the truth! The official press photo's being released don't add up!
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @shillitz on X.)
Here is the image of Kerry published on the BBC website (archived here) on July 20, 2026:
(Image source: BBC.com.)
The clip on X was taken from a video titled "Celebrate the 1917 October Revolution!" posted on YouTube account @ProletarianTV on Nov. 7, 2023. The caption identifies Joshua Covel (below) as representing Red Youth (bold added by Lead Stories):
The CPGB-ML celebrates the 106th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. This event took place on 4 Nov 2023 in Bolivar Hall. Chairing the meeting was comrade Ranjeet Brar. Speakers included:
Ambassador Rocío del Valle Maneiro, embassy of Venezuela
Boris Litvinov, KPRF Donbass
Joshua Covel, Red Youth, the youth wing of the CPGB-ML
Guillaume Fournier, Pole de Renaissaince Communiste en France
Ambassador Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez, embassy of Cuba
Minister Zhao Fei, embassy of China
Ambassador Kim, embassy of DPRK
A comrade of Stephen Cho's, coordinator of the Korean International Forum and an organiser of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, south Korea
Steve Sweeney, CPGB-ML, living and working in Russia
Joti Brar, CPGB-ML
Beginning at 10 minutes 38 seconds into the video, a man named Joshua Covel is introduced. The clip of the person speaking on X matches Covel's words in the video posted on YouTube from 14:51 to 15:20.
Here is a screenshot of Covel speaking in the YouTube video, which matches the person in the X video:
(Image source: video on @ProletarianTV on YouTube.)
Covel appeared in another video titled "Palestine, Heating and eating; War crimes and repression: the criminalisation of dissent," posted to the Proletarian TV YouTube channel on Dec. 2, 2023:
