Thugs launch ‘terrifying’ arson campaign against Gareth Bale’s fiancee’s family – sparking fears footballer and girlfriend could be next
The aunt of the 25-year-old beauty had petrol poured through her letterbox and two cars set on fire, just days after her gradparents' car was also torched
ARSONISTS targeted an aunt of Gareth Bale’s fiancée yesterday days after her grandparents’ car was torched.
The suspected gangland war on the family of Emma Rhys-Jones, 25, led to fears she too could be in peril.
Emma was shattered by a second arson attack on her terrified family yesterday.
Two cars were torched at her aunt’s house in Wales four days after one belonging to her grandparents was set on fire.
Petrol was also yesterday poured through the letterbox of another aunt in a suspected gangland vendetta over a missing suitcase of cash.
Last night it led to fears the Welsh beauty and her superstar footie fiance, 27, who plays for Real Madrid, could be targeted next.
A source said: “Although she’s hundreds of miles away in Spain she’s worried witless.
“Emma’s been told the security around her and Gareth has been reviewed. But it’s of little comfort.”
Aunt Annabella Williams, 55, escaped injury yesterday as the cars at her home in Flint, North Wales, went up in flames at dawn.
Two culprits are believed to have been captured on CCTV.
Petrol was then poured through the door of a second aunt — Jane Burns who lives a mile away.
Jane, 52, said: “It was terrifying.”
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Her daughter, 27, was staying with her grandparents 160 miles away in Cardiff when the case of cash vanished from the house.
Jane said: “Someone clearly wants it back.”
The daughter, an ex-Page 3 model, goes by the name Epiphany Dring.
Her mum said: “I haven’t seen her in five weeks. I hope she is OK.”
Cops are believed to be hunting for her.
Grandparents Eva, 84, and John, 79, are in hiding after their car was torched and bricks thrown through their window on Friday.
Emma, whose money-laundering dad Martin, 52, is in a US jail, got engaged to £86million Wales winger Bale, 27, in July.