A taxi firm used by one of the Glasgow airport terror suspects has told how it was visited by police just minutes before the failed attack.

David McCulloch, a director of the Paisley Cab Company, told Sky News that officers "did not bat an eyelid" when the news of the flaming Jeep came through.

He said Dr Bilal Abdulla - or Abdul as he also called himself - used the taxi firm on a regular basis, including 20 trips over the previous five weeks.

Most of these were to his work at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where two men were arrested in relation to the failed attack.

But one of those trips on June 13 was a trip to Glasgow airport, just five miles from his home.

Abdulla used two separate mobile phones to call for taxis, according to Mr McCulloch.

It is understood police used mobile phones found in the vehicles used in the failed London car bombs of June 29 to trace the calls to the Scottish cab firm.

Detectives arrived on Saturday morning but there were no members of the senior management present.

When the police did return it was 2.45pm, just 25 minutes before the actual incident took place.

According to Mr McCulloch, there was a frantic search for information on Abdulla.

"The police were obviously on the case trying to trace this particular gentleman through telephone calls made to our office and taxis that he had booked," he said.

"They wanted details of his movements from his house to the hospital, and that one that went to the airport."

Abdulla was arrested at Glasgow airport and has now been taken from Scotland to Paddington Green police station in London.

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