Bomb scare in Leeds after wife attaches GPS tracker to husband's car without him knowing
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A terror alert was enacted in Leeds on Tuesday after a suspicious wife attached a GPS device to the car of her husband, who mistook it for a bomb. At around 11am, the man’s wife admitted she had - for reasons unknown - attached it to the car, stopping the terror response plan before it went any further, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported. “This morning officers were called to a suspicious package in a car and an operation was put in place,” a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police told the newspaper.
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