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A mum has described how she saw the man arrested in Wigan shortly before he was wrestled to the ground by armed policemen.

Cheryl Davies, 40, was picking her children up from school at 3.20pm when she saw the man she later recognised as the Wigan suspect. “I only noticed him because he looked drunk, or not quite with it. I was thinking, ‘what sort of place do we live in with people wandering around like that?’ He seemed under the influence of something.” He had short hair and looked to be in his 20s, she added.

When she returned from school their street and surrounding roads were cordoned off.

Her son Josh Round, 15, later watched the police bomb squad circle around a red parcel dropped by the arrested man. “I thought it looked like a pizza bag – one of those bags pizzas are delivered in,” he said.