@c5news: A Whelford villager who raised the alarm about the suspected Fairford terrorists has claimed police “dropped the ball” as the defence secretary suggested she only has a “partial picture” of the situation. The woman, who has not been named, was coming home from a party when she found her driveway and road blocked by three white vans. Turning around to drive back where she came from, the woman said she saw a large group of hooded and masked men. “When they saw me, they ran ahead of me, some into the field and some towards the neighbouring village of Kempsford.” “I then realised that something highly unusual was taking place. In light of my awareness of a security threat to the base, I immediately called the MoD (Ministry of Defence) police, the phone rang out and they didn’t answer," she continued. The woman called 999 and within 10 minutes the village was “full of armed police”, she said. "I think it was pure luck that I arrived in the village at a similar time to the vans. I am absolutely staggered that it was left to me, as a member of the public, to see and report this." She added: “I’m just really keen to highlight that it appears someone really dropped the ball on this.” Wes Streeting on Monday thanked the member of the public for phoning authorities saying she had done “exactly what we would hope that someone in that extraordinary situation would do”, but added she only had a “partial picture” of what had happened.

Tommy Mcglynn :

why did they get bail with that in it🥺🥺🥺🥺

Anton55 :

so now they have guns. Are you sure. No way would they have got bail.

loz1922 :

On bail how the hell does that work 😡

La Bala De Oro :

'I'm just a humble farmer your honour..'

skeleton :

Diesel theft

tonyhayes :

Did the police think she was the ring leader for a moment?

AJ :

😳

Ann Bell391 :

joke

FRAN :

out on bail ffs

Carol Mattox965 :

Next time take no notice sweetheart they have only gone and let them all off

PWD JOINERY :

They’ve been released btw!

The One :

Arne :

3 empty vans so they want to fill them up with diesel? did u liars found any pumps trolleys etc to pull the heist off ?

simmo :

bullshit

meateater :

Took 18 hours to get into the middle van. Had pheasant feed inside.

user800959462912 :

Haven’t they just been released on bail?

tonyhayes :

They were trying to nick your red diesel out of your heavy oil tank

sliv8791 :

MOD police defo asleep

𝙎𝙃𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙄 :

I c you :

Bjorn2 :

Looks like they were simple robbers, after farm equipment

Nothing 2 Silly :

BS. probably county lines drop and collect from USA Military flight from Colombia. Vans full with empty barrels suggest they never made it to the collection point.

bubblegum :

Why are people asking why have they been released.? It's simple, there is nothing to charge them with. This looks like a US false flag set up to me. Why is Trump saying the US was involved.? Their phone at the base never even got answered. I,m guessing this was a US diversion to help Trump with his phoney Iran war. Rubio is saying it was the hands of a foreign actor where involved in an incident involving terrorist arrested on suspected explosives and terrorism offenses near a Brit airbase. Absolute rubbish.