{"id":341480,"date":"2025-08-13T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:31:26","slug":"man-jailed-for-10-years-for-attempting-to-murder-toddler-at-glasgow-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341480\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for 10 years for attempting to murder toddler at Glasgow railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 28-year-old made the attempt after a relationship breakdown with the child\u2019s mother\"AFrederick Danquah(Image: British Transport Police)<\/p>\n

A suicidal man who attempted to murder a two-year-old boy by walking in front of a train while carrying the child has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Frederick Danquah, 28, stepped in front of a moving train after a relationship breakdown with the child\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

Both the child and Danquah were injured in the incident at Garrowhill railway station in Glasgow\u2019s east end on July 2, 2023.<\/p>\n

Danquah denied attempted murder and another charge of culpable and reckless conduct, regarding another incident on the same date, stating his mental condition as a defence.<\/p>\n

He was convicted by a jury at the High Court in Scotland<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

At the same court on Wednesday, the judge said the harm caused by Danquah was “of the greatest kind” and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

He also imposed a non-harassment order which will remain in place until the child is 18.<\/p>\n

The court heard that earlier on the day of the offence, Danquah tried to climb over a footbridge above the M8 in Glasgow with the child on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

His actions came just hours after an argument with his ex-partner who told him she had “moved on”.<\/p>\n

After posting a suicidal message on Facebook<\/a>, he prepared a “contingency plan\u201d which included a note with contact details, the court heard.<\/p>\n

Danquah collected the child from relatives and took him into Glasgow city centre where he met his sister\u2019s partner, before he attempted to climb the bridge over the M8.<\/p>\n

He was spotted by police but “reassured them”, the court heard, before he travelled to Garrowhill station with the child and made an attempt on their lives.<\/p>\n

British Transport Police<\/a> said Danquah sustained a broken jaw and fracture to his neck, while the child suffered cuts and bruises but no serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The toddler was discharged from hospital two days later.<\/p>\n

Sentencing, Judge Tony Kelly said: “To seek to take the life\u2026 over some hours is great criminality. I have no doubt about your intentions.”<\/p>\n

He said a train driver “saw you step in the path of a train” and people involved in the rescue were in “various stages of upset”.<\/p>\n

The court heard Danquah had no previous convictions and was involved in a Ghanaian community group.<\/p>\n

Defending, Gary Allan said it was a “horrible miracle” that both Danquah and the child survived.<\/p>\n

He added that his client was receiving psychiatric help since a “one-off horror story took place at his own hand”.<\/p>\n

Mr Allan said Danquah had been “beaten up by other prisoners”, and jail “will be a living nightmare for him”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 28-year-old made the attempt after a relationship breakdown with the child\u2019s motherFrederick Danquah(Image: British Transport Police) A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,30,918,4884,257,603,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-national-news","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115022180088667013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341480","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=341480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}