Jurors heard how Danquah had struggled to accept his relationship with his partner was over and that they had continued to live together.<\/p>\n
They also heard that the ex-partner had discussed a new relationship she was in and had made it clear they were not getting back together.<\/p>\n
On the day of the incident, 2 July 2023, Danquah had collected the child from another address in the city and posted a message on Facebook saying he could not “continue to live in this darkness”.<\/p>\n
He was spotted carrying the boy as he tried to climb over fence of a bridge in Anderston overlooking M8 motorway.<\/p>\n
He was spoken to by a police officer and allowed to leave the area.<\/p>\n
Danquah then went on to Garrowhill station where he, carrying the child, stepped in front of a train pulling into the station at about 19:20.<\/p>\n
The child suffered grazes or bruises on the forehead, head, back, face and nose – and was described as looking shocked in the hospital.<\/p>\n
Danquah sustained fractures to his lower spine and his jaw.<\/p>\n
After the incident, Danquah was held at a mental health clinic in Glasgow before being discharged.<\/p>\n
Gary Allan KC, defending, said what happened was “wholly out of character”.<\/p>\n
Ch Insp Marc Francey said the child was now doing well, though officers could have “easily been looking at a very different investigation”.<\/p>\n
The British Transport Police officer added: “Danquah’s actions that day were incomprehensible. <\/p>\n
“He deliberately put a young child’s life in extreme danger and it is only through sheer luck that he wasn’t seriously injured or killed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors heard how Danquah had struggled to accept his relationship with his partner was over and that they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021460488702816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341133","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=341133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}