Gatwick evacuation LIVE updates as armed police respond to security incident

Passengers told 'you person to leave' by staff

The Mirror's Jennifer Newton was astatine Gatwick Airport erstwhile unit announced it was being evacuated, and said workers told passengers "you’ve got to leave" arsenic equipped constabulary stood guarding the information area.

Jennifer said: “I arrived astatine the airdrome this greeting astatine astir 9:45am, and erstwhile I got there, I could archer thing wasn’t rather close due to the fact that they weren’t allowing radical to spell implicit to information successful the mean way. They enactment america successful a monolithic queue.

“It was moving slowly, and astatine that constituent they said determination had been a information incident. Part of the information country was closed, truthful they were starring radical to a antithetic area. Then I was successful the queue for astir fractional an hr and I had conscionable got to the constituent wherever you’re astir to spell done information and they said ‘We’re evacuating. Everyone, you’ve got to leave.’

“But earlier that, I had a feeling thing wasn’t close due to the fact that I could spot 2 equipped constabulary officers lasting adjacent the queue. They were connected a vigor looking astatine each other."