A SECURITY guard who saw the Reading terror suspect being rugby-tackled to the ground by police has described how it looked as if he had put his hands "in a big bucket of red paint".
Sydney McDonald, who works at Sainsbury's on Friar Street, said: "I had just finished work at about 7.10pm and as soon as I came out of the shop, there were about four police cars, they turned around in the middle of the road, they were driving pretty fast.
"There was a guy and I saw him pointing to a man and saying 'There he is, there he is'. If he hadn't, they would have missed him."
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The 65 year old added: "He was running really fast, properly fast.
"They put the emergency brakes on, jumped out of the car and rugby-tackled him to the floor.
"He was on his stomach and the blood on his hands looked like he had put his hand in a big bucket of red paint.
"They put the handcuffs on, he wasn't putting up a fight or anything like that, they picked him up and put him in the van, he just sat there all quiet, he wasn't saying nothing."
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