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Get you up to speed: RAF Fairford plot was foiled after one of the suspects ‘dialled 999’ | News UK
Five men were arrested on September 27, 2026, near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on suspicion of plotting a car bomb attack against the military base. Authorities confirmed that no improvised explosive devices were found, but a quantity of petrol was recovered from three vans at the scene.
Police have confirmed that no improvised explosive devices were found during the investigation, although a quantity of petrol was recovered from the vehicles involved. The five men arrested have since been released on police bail but remain under investigation and must adhere to strict conditions.
The head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, confirmed that no improvised explosive devices were found during the investigation related to the five men arrested near RAF Fairford, which has heightened public concern. Following their release on police bail, the suspects remain under investigation and are subject to strict conditions as authorities continue to assess the potential threat.
What remains unclear — The motive behind the suspect’s call to police and whether it was a genuine concern or part of their plan is still being investigated.
RAF Fairford terror plot foiled after suspect calls police emergency line
The suspected terror plot, which would have attacked RAF Fairford, was intercepted after one of the suspects involved rang the police.
One of the five men arrested reportedly called 999 before the group were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences.
The Times reported that police are investigating whether the group members were acting as proxies for Iran.
It was initially reported that a farmer driving home in the early hours of Sunday morning tipped off police to the suspicious activity – but police were already on the scene by then, it has been reported.
The suspect’s motive in warning police is also being probed.
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It is unclear whether he got cold feet or whether it was part of their plan.
Earlier today, security expert Will Geddes told WTX that the five men arrested near RAF Fairford may have been conducting a ‘dry run’ for a future attack.
Today, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing said that no improvised explosive devices were found in the three vans discovered near RAF Fairford, but a quantity of petrol was recovered.
Fears remain as the investigation continues.
Security expert Will Geddes told WTX: ‘This seems to have been a dry run rehearsal before an attack.
‘Many terrorists get picked up during what we call hostile surveillance detection – when they’re taking photographs, driving routes, etc. I think this was their penultimate dry run before actually doing the attack itself.’
Head of UK counter-terrorism Policing Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said earlier today: ‘We can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered.
‘Yesterday we released the five men on police bail. They remain under investigation and must adhere to strict conditions while we continue our work.
‘The safety of the public is at the forefront of our investigative decision-making, and this was certainly the case yesterday.
‘I understand why this development will have come as a surprise to many, but I’d like to reiterate that it was an investigative decision, and one which is grounded in experience and careful consideration of policing powers.’
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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