{"id":143899,"date":"2025-05-30T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143899\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:49:14","slug":"knifeman-terrified-pub-customers-then-cycled-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143899\/","title":{"rendered":"Knifeman terrified pub customers then cycled away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect arrested and bailed<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_300525StationHousePadgateJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The Station House in Padgate, Warrington, where a knifeman terrorised customers.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Station House in Padgate, Warrington, where a knifeman terrorised customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Pub customers and staff were threatened by a knifeman. Now police have issued an appeal for witnesses to the bizarre incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At around 8pm on Friday, May 23, a man entered the Station House pub in Station Road, Padgate, in Warrington, and threatened the customers with a knife before leaving on a bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No one was harmed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">As he fled the scene he was seen by two witnesses to throw the knife into a bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">PC Katherine Molyneux said: \u201cI\u2019d urge the two men who saw the suspect throw the knife into a bush to contact us to help us with our enquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The same goes for anyone who witnessed the incident and has not yet spoken to police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Cheshire Constabulary said: &#8220;As part of our enquiries a 35-year-old man has been arrested and has since been released on conditional bail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone with information should contact Cheshire Police on 101 or via the website (<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheshire.police.uk\/tell-us\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"www.cheshire.police.uk\/tell-usLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cheshire.police.uk\/tell-us<\/a>) quoting 25000426706. 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