Hostage situation at U.K bowling alley, 22 October 2017

gregjrichards · Oct 22, 2017

A bowling alley is in lockdown after it was stormed by a man with a shotgun who has taken hostages.

Around 30 armed police officers have been spotted outside MFA Bowl at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire this afternoon.

One witness claimed that the suspect had 'two hostages and a shotgun'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-armed-man-takes-hostages.html#ixzz4wFcvneGf

Seryth · Oct 22, 2017

More articles on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-41714114

http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/22/major-incident-as-gunman-with-sawn-off-shotgun-holds-hostages-in-nuneaton-bowling-alley-7018709/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4742132/nuneaton-bowling-alley-hostages-lockdown-latest/

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/86...alley-odeon-hostages-shotgun-gun-warwickshire this one has a video of police at the scene.

Seryth · Oct 22, 2017

[video=youtube;XOacA3RYrXk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOacA3RYrXk[/video]

Sky News is Live with this.

gregjrichards · Oct 22, 2017

Official police twitter account

Warwickshire Police
@warkspolice
·
1h
Officers are currently dealing with an ongoing incident at Bermuda Park, #Nuneaton. Please avoid the area.

Seryth · Oct 22, 2017

Listening to Sky News and the people who are phoning in, if the police are going down a negotiations route, we are unlikely to hear much information from them for the time being.

wfgodot · Oct 22, 2017

Live coverage Coventry Telegraph.

Lorenzo D'Agostino @lorenzodago
1/2 Nuneaton hostage situation: NOT ind.verified info, but staffer at a nearby business tells me the suspect was told off for smoking inside

Lorenzo D'Agostino @lorenzodago
So he went back to the Bowling alley with a shotgun and is currently holding 3 people hostage. (again, info not independently verified)

16:54
Hostage 'shown to police'

Reporter Claire Harrison says the an eye-witness has told her that the gunman has brought a hostage to the front door to ‘show them he’s serious’.

17:12
Eye-witness description of gunman

The gunman has been described as around five foot 10 and in his mid 40s.

Lloyd Weightman was with his two sons, aged seven and three, when he came out of the changing facilities to find the bowling alley empty apart from the gunman.

He said:

“I thought there must have been a fire alarm of something.
“We walked to the front door and he came towards me with a shotgun saying ‘get the *advertiser censored** out’.”

Mr Weightman described the gunman as in his mid-40s and about five foot 10 and said he was “definitely on something”.

17:22
Not terror related

Warwickshire Police ✔ @warkspolice
Officers are dealing with ongoing incident at Bermuda Park, #Nuneaton and confirm this incident is unconnected to any terrorist activity

MelmothTheLost · Oct 22, 2017

gregjrichards said:
“A bowling alley is in lockdown after it was stormed by a man with a shotgun who has taken hostages.

Around 30 armed police officers have been spotted outside MFA Bowl at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire this afternoon.

One witness claimed that the suspect had 'two hostages and a shotgun'.

A sawn-off is a bit of an archaic weapon these days. You don't hear about them very often as illegal handguns and other firearms are usually available to those with criminal connections since the opening up of eastern Europe.

gregjrichards · Oct 22, 2017

Chief Executive of MFA bowl in Nuneaton says two of his staff are being held hostage by a man armed with a gun - sky news

Police say this incident is not terrorist related.

Update one of the hostages is the man’s ex-wife.

gregjrichards · Oct 22, 2017

Sky News: unconfirmed reports the hostages are out.

wfgodot · Oct 22, 2017

BBC Midlands Today ✔ @bbcmtd
MFA Bowl chief executive says Nuneaton bowling alley gunman has been arrested

.....Guardian:

Police storm bowling alley in Nuneaton to bring hostage situation to an end

gregjrichards · Oct 22, 2017

Gunman has been arrested but is injured and he has been taken to hospital.No fatalities thankfully.

Supernovae · Oct 23, 2017

A man has been charged:

https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/...-following-incident-at-Nuneaton-bowling-alley

David Clarke, aged 53, of Ryde Avenue, Nuneaton, has been charged with two counts of false imprisonment, one count of criminal damage, two counts of possession of a bladed article, one count of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and two counts of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence.

MelmothTheLost · Oct 24, 2017

The Mail reports that Clarke is a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang and was targetting his ex-girlfriend who by chance wasn't working that day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ber-held-two-staff-hostage-bowling-alley.html

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