Panickers have taken food off my table

PETROL panic buyers were slammed by a self-employed electrician who said they had ‘directly taken food off the table’ for his wife and son.

Roland McKibbin, 31, from Beckenham in south-east London, failed to fill up his tank despite visiting four petrol stations. He faced a 90minute wait before half-filling his tank yesterday.

Mr McKibbin said: ‘I rely on fuel to travel to jobs – no fuel means I can’t drive, which means I can’t get to jobs with my tools.

‘So, basically, the panic-buying idiots have lost me income, and directly taken food off the table for my wife and five-year old son, because I can’t wire people’s houses from home, unfortunately.’