A window cleaner who predicted Covid in 2016 and was dubbed “paranoid” for stashing food around Great Britain for two decades in preparation for Doomsday feels vindicated as “apocalyptic” food prices sweep the land. By March 2020, when the pandemic hit the UK, ever vigilant in case of catastrophe, Ian Coulthard, 52, had 100 tins of potatoes, 100 tins of carrots, 72 toilet rolls, 40-plus tins of curry and two dozen kilos of rice and pasta stashed around the country.
Insisting he is a “normal man with a mortgage,” the Army and Territorial Army veteran, who served in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2013, is constantly prepared, in case of civil war or a massive terrorist attack, which he has been safeguarding against for 20 years by amassing supplies and honing his survival skills. Ian, who is single and lives in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, who spookily predicted back in 2016 that the world could face a major virus, said: “I started learning about survival, because I realised that the global economy was going to collapse one day.
“I figured some kind of pandemic would happen and a socio-economic collapse. Doomsday preppers like me have been called paranoid for saying all of this, but it’s all happening in front of our eyes.
