Personal Life
He married Ancilla Murfitt in 1990 who is a practice nurse at a general practice in Colchester. They have two children. The marriage was dissolved in 2007.
According to Mike Weatherley, Whittingdale is "into heavy metal" and "likes AC/DC". His half-brother, Charles Napier, was chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange and has been convicted of a number of child sexual offences
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