Flight attendant shouted ‘it’s a dangerous man’ so I got up and went straight over.. the wife wasn’t happy I jumped up and left her
Modest grandad reveals how he helped to restrain maniac
decided to come on all guns blazing, night goggles, the whole caboodle.
“They just picked him up like a wee rag doll and took him straight out.”
Rab added: “They got us out on to the tarmac and I have never seen so many police.
“They took the names of every passenger and searched us before we were bussed back to the terminal building.
“I think they thought there might have been somebody else.”
Rab criticised the delay in removing Marks from the plane.
He said: “What if the PM of Australia was on this plane? Would they have waited an hour and 10 minutes?
“Their excuse was that they weren’t sure if the bomb was live or not or if there was another terrorist. “It was badly handled.” The airport was in lockdown and Rab and Karen had to spend the night there.
He said: “That was us until nine o’clock in the morning. No food. Nothing. They gave us a couple of biscuits and a cup of tea.”
While every passenger had to give a statement, Rab was interviewed separately by detectives. He said: “They matched up all the boys’ stories that were involved, just to get everything right.”
The would-be attacker was identified as a 25-year-old from Sri Lanka who was in Australia on a student visa and training as a chef.
Marks was released from a psychiatric unit in Melbourne hours before the jet took off.
He appeared in court on Thursday charged with recklessly threatening to set off a bomb and destroy an aircraft and was remanded in custody.
Rab and Karen finally arrived in Kuala Lumpur 15 hours later than planned. He joked: “They gave us a meal voucher for $20 each, which is about 15 quid. It was very good of them. “They didn’t even upgrade me.” Asked about the Record’s front page, he said: “I’m getting pelters on Facebook – I’ve never had so many messages.
“The support has been great but I’m not a hero. I was just helping.
“I didn’t tackle him, deck him and chain him up by myself. It was an effort by at least five or six guys. “It’s just a thing you do.” Rab, who now lives in Milton Keynes, hopes to be home by tomorrow and is looking forward to catching up with friends in his local.
He joked: “I should get a few free pints out of this.”