Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on a person arrested after a string of pepper spray attacks at Heathrow Airport

One person's been arrested after a string of pepper spray attacks at London's Heathrow Airport.

Twenty-one people suffered injuries, with five needing hospital treatment, after an argument escalated in a terminal carpark. 

Social media footage shows a large armed police response, as the area was temporarily locked down.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey told Andrew Dickens police were quick to say it wasn't related to terrorism or a protest.

He says the people seemed to know each other, and got into an argument, which led to someone spraying a substance at people they didn't like.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the UK. We go Gavin greg good morning to you,
Good morning Andrew. So some bloke's been spraying pepper spray
all other people that he throw.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes, twenty one injured in total. Five of those needed
hospital treatment. But the chaos as the car park. This
was at the car park two Terminal three at London's
Heater Airport. The car park was pretty much in lockdown
for a couple of hours and that meant people were
hanging around trying to get their cars basically having gone
on holiday, so pretty miserable for them. And now police

(00:30):
have been quick to say this was not terrorist or
terrorists related. They say it was not a protest. Instead,
it looked like a group of people who knew each
other got involved in an argument. That argument escalated and
then that resulted in its alleged somebody using something like
pepper spray to spray people that they didn't like, but

(00:50):
ultimately others got caught up in it. Social media footage
I've seen shows large armed police response, fire engines and
officer searching a handcuff individuals. Incidentally, more suspects of being
searched for one person has been arrested. But quite extraordinary
experience and also tremendous knock on. As I said, for
those people who are at Heather today.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
And speaking of bonkers whippons, some people have been throwing
custard and apple crumble at the Crown Jewels.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, thankfully the Crown Jewels are not harmed or damaged
in any way. They are of course behind strong glass.
This in the Tower of London, no less. But this
is a new group, new I think to most people,
called take Back Power. They appear to be an offshoot
of just Stop Oil, which of course we do know
about and have heard about. They say there are a

(01:38):
new nonviolent civil resistance group. They want to effectively have
a permanent citizens Assembly or House of the people, with
the power to tax extreme wealth and fix Britain. Anyway,
Andrew more of that later. Because the four people have
been arrested, they use custom and apple crumble to throw
at the Crown Jewels behind glass. Of course they are

(02:00):
just priceless, so plenty of concern that they might have damaged,
but yeah, permanently guard stationed in and around the room,
and thankfully no particular damage. Nevertheless, it's suggested this could
be the first in several stunts that this group carry out.
Apparently on Wednesday, they left manure under the Christmas tree
of one of London's top hotels.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Let's be on the pale and I thank you Gavin
Gray from the UK.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
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