Armed police protect Gareth Bale and fiancee after family feud fallout
Posted Monday, September 26, 2016 by stuff.co.nz
Real Madrid football star Gareth Bale and fiancee Emma Rhys-Jones.
Real Madrid football star Gareth Bale has had extra police protection after his fiancee's family were targeted by arson attacks in Wales.
Bale, 27, is due to marry longtime girlfriend Emma Rhys-Jones soon.
Cars belonging to her grandparents and aunt were set alight and petrol was poured through another aunt's home in Flint, north Wales, according to the Daily Mail.
The newspaper claimed the attacks were "part of a feud with a drugs gang" after Rhys-Jones' cousin, former model Epiphany Dring, disappeared, allegedly carrying a suitcase full of ï¿¡300,000 ($NZ536,000) in cash, plus drugs and watches believed to make the full contents worth around ï¿¡1 million ($NZ1.8m).
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