Gareth Bale family drug feud glamour girl Epiphany Dring back in UK after vanishing amid £1m cocaine-stuffed suitcase mystery
Relatives’ cars back in Wales firebombed and family fear feud, thought to involve a Middle Eastern drugs cartel, will re-ignite now she is home
A MODEL who fled the UK amid a drugs war involving the family of Gareth Bale’s fiancee has returned and is set to be quizzed by cops.
Glamour girl Epiphany Dring flew to Malaysia in September after a case containing cash and cocaine worth £1million went missing.
Relatives’ cars back in Wales were then firebombed and her family fear the feud, thought to involve a Middle Eastern drugs cartel hunting the case, will re-ignite now she is home.
Epiphany, 28, cousin of Welsh football superstar Bale’s fiancee Emma Rhys-Jones, is said to be lying low.
Sources said cops knew she was back and plan to question her about the missing case.
A source said: “Obviously she had nothing to do with the attacks as she was abroad but they want to know what she knows about this gang.
“Since she has got back, the threats and warnings have started flying about again.
“The word is someone will be hurt in the next hit because the case and money and drugs are still missing. It is a drugs gang so they are not going to just accept they have lost £1million.
“A lot of places could be hit, including Gareth and Emma’s homes, and no-one in the family feels safe.”
We told six weeks ago armed cops guarded Real Madrid ace Bale’s hotel room in Spain before a game. Sources said the £86million ex-Tottenham ace and Emma, both 27, have hired permanent security staff.
They have a £2million home in South Wales plus their Madrid mansion.
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Six of Emma’s relatives are in police protective custody and some may have to permanently change their IDs.
Former topless model Epiphany was living with her and Emma’s grandparents Eva and John McMurray when the case went missing.
A car on their Cardiff drive was firebombed. Then two were torched outside the home of Emma’s aunt Annabella Williams, 55, in Flint, North Wales.
Our source added: “Things are going to get worse and the gang have said, ‘We are coming in to a house next time.’”
Emma’s dad Martin Rhys-Jones, 52, was jailed for six years in the US in August for money laundering.