THE attacks in Nottingham are baffling and the circumstances are unique, according to the campaigner and former police officer Norman Brennan.

He told GB News: “One of the one of the rare things of this attack is that there’s three separate locations. So it’s not as though it appears to be a target attack.

“It appears to be somebody that has just attacked people at will, because it’s been over a mile long with three separate locations to date…

“Plus it appears that a van and a knife have been used. This is very rare indeed. I mean, in fact, it is an anomaly that I’ve never seen before.”

In a discussion with Patrick Christys, he added: “When I say I haven’t seen it before, I’m talking about in general homicide people stabbing each other, running over each other. Of course, if it’s a terrorist attack, then yes, they do go and kill as many people as possible.

“But one of the things we need to be a bit careful of is that it appears that these attacks took place at four o’clock in the morning. I cannot recall a terrorist attack in Britain taking place at four o’clock in the morning.”

He added: “Terrorists normally want lots of people in a location so they can cause the maximum amount of damage and at four o’clock in the morning you haven’t normally got the most people available.

“It’s probably wrong to speculate, but there’s all sorts of questions for which we haven’t got the answers.

“I’m sure by midnight tonight – many of us that are very surprised and worried and concerned and bemused and baffled as to what’s happened today – hopefully, we’ll be told.”