{"id":1130975,"date":"2026-08-05T02:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:17:20","slug":"midlothian-police-tape-off-street-as-angry-crowd-gathers-outside-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130975\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlothian police tape off street as angry crowd gathers outside property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A crowd of people protesting has formed outside a <a aria-label=\"Midlothian propertyLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/young-midlothian-mum-trapped-unsuitable-34402372\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Midlothian property<\/a> for the fourth night in the space of a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Around 40 <a aria-label=\"peopleLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/edinburgh-colleagues-launch-fundraiser-family-34401116\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">people<\/a> reportedly gathered in St Andrew Street in Dalkeith at around 5.30pm on Tuesday, August 4. Those demonstrating claimed they were opposing an alleged &#8220;sex offender&#8221; who had been housed in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police were again in attendance, with several officers seen trying to control the crowd. A cordon also appeared to have been erected outside a boarded-up flat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Edinburgh Live <a aria-label=\"previously reportedLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/protestors-gather-outside-midlothian-property-34400634\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> on the earlier demonstrations, which were dispersed by police with no arrests made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In footage shared on social media, those outside could be heard shouting and chanting, calling for the person inside the property to be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A significant police presence could be seen swarming the residential street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police Scotland has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crowd of people protesting has formed outside a Midlothian property for the fourth night in the space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,307765,1102,4884,131662,530,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1130975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-dalkeith","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-midlothian","tag-police-scotland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117040503509786970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}