The pub owner also runs the Clutha Trust, a charity providing fuel money and hot meals to struggling families, in memory of the Clutha victims.
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A bar where ten people died in a horrifying helicopter crash has been robbed by sneak thieves.
Staff at the Clutha in Glasgow’s Stockwell Street discovered the break-in when they turned up for work on Saturday morning. While the bar was closed overnight the robbers had forced open a door to the rear of the premises before stealing money from the till.
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Clutha owner Alan Crossan yesterday described the theft as despicable and said the loss of the cash and cost of repairs will impact on the vital charity work done through the pub’s Clutha Trust. The Trust was set up in 2014 in memory of those who died in November 29, 2013. In recent years it has provided struggling families in Glasgow with money towards their fuel bills and hot meals.
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Alan said of the theft:”This was a despicable act.
“I would appeal to anyone with information on the break-in to call the police.
“What it does is take away money we use tor our projects like Power Over Poverty that gives families money towards their electricity bills and also provides people with food.
“That is money we will never recover.
“At the moment we are providing 200 pizzas a week to charities and foodbanks and providing work for young musicians through the Trust.”
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The ten men and women died after a police helicopter crashing through the roof of the Clutha on a Friday evening when it was packed with people watching a live band.
Customers John McGarrigle, 57, Mark O’Prey, 44, Gary Arthur, 48, Colin Gibson, 33, Robert Jenkins, 61, Samuel McGhee, 56, and Joe Cusker, 59, were killed. Helicopter pilot David Traill, 51, and police crew members PC Tony Collins, 43, and PC Kirsty Nelis, 36, also died.
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Alan added:”The thieves got in through a door at the beer garden after we had closed.
“The manager discovered the break-in when he turned up for work.
“The door was badly damaged and has had to be replaced at great expense. “We had to close the beer garden to customers to allow the work to be carried out which affected our takings.
“The thieves got away with hundreds of pounds and we have also had to pay £1200 for a new door.”
Alan says the spot where the break-in happened was not covered by CCTV and the bar now plans to spend £2500 beefing up security.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 2pm on Saturday, 27 September, 2025, we received a report of a break-in to and theft from a premises on Stockwell Street, Glasgow. “Enquiries are ongoing.”
In March 2014 four people were convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court of breaking into the Clutha just weeks after the tragedy while it was closed for repairs and stealing cash, alcohol and charity collecting tins. Two of those responsible were each sentenced to six months imprisonment.
The Clutha reopened in July 2015 in a ceremony attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. In 2019 a A Fatal Accident Inquiry, held at Hampden Park in Glasgow, found that the helicopter crashed after the pilot “consciously took a risk” and ignored low fuel warnings.
Yesterday messages of support from Clutha customers following the break-in were posted on the pubs social media page.
One regular said:”Hope you get back to normal as soon as possible .Sad that anyone would do this.”
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