{"id":351996,"date":"2025-08-17T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351996\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:03:10","slug":"shop-worker-seriously-injured-after-being-sprayed-with-substance-during-robbery-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351996\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop worker seriously injured after being &#8216;sprayed with substance&#8217; during robbery in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A shop worker has been left with serious injuries after he was sprayed with a substance during a robbery in Glasgow on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man entered the store at around 9.05pm and sprayed the 24-year-old male employee with a substance before making off with a sum of money.<\/p>\n<p>The staff member was taken Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are now searching for the assailant. He is described as white and of slim build.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was wearing a green and grey tracksuit top with a zip, orange shorts, black socks and black trainers. He left in the direction of Memel Street.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Greg Turnbull said: \u201cThis was an extremely frightening experience for the shop worker which left him with serious injuries requiring hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtensive enquiries are ongoing to trace the man responsible and we are asking anyone who knows who he is or where he might be to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also asking anyone who saw anything before or after the robbery to make contact. Please also check private CCTV and dash-cam footage to see if you have captured something that could assist with our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can help is urged to contact Police Scotland on <strong>101<\/strong>, quoting incident number <strong>3850<\/strong> of Saturday,  August 16, 2025, or make a call anonymously to Crimestoppers on <strong>0800 555 111<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shop worker has been left with serious injuries after he was sprayed with a substance during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351996","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\/115044955229771571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351996","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=351996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}