At the Sunday Express UK, "
Army wives' terror fear: military families plea for more guards after Rigby murder":
The day after 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered outside Woolwich barracks, anxious mothers met Army chiefs to call for more protection.
The women asked for their views to be heard at the very top “because they are feeling so exposed to danger”. Highly trained MoD police would have been at the scene of the murder in minutes had they still been conducting patrols.
They are trained to deal with lifethreatening incidents on the perimeter of the barracks and have authority to shoot to kill, the Sunday Express can reveal.
One source claimed that had such officers been in place, they would have been able to deal with the situation last Wednesday quicker than the Met Police firearms officers who arrived at the scene within 14 minutes.
During the wait the two suspects spouted extremist propaganda to bystanders.
The source said: "MoD police radios were linked into the Met's so they would have been right on top of this within minutes and would have known exactly what to do...
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