{"id":353613,"date":"2025-08-18T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:16:09","slug":"glasgow-shop-worker-suffers-horror-injuries-after-being-sprayed-with-substance-during-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353613\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow shop worker suffers horror injuries after being &#8216;sprayed with substance&#8217; during robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A SHOPKEEPER suffered horror injuries after being sprayed with a &#8220;substance&#8221; during a robbery at a store in Glasgow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old man suffered &#8220;serious injuries&#8221; when the thug  struck, before making off with a sum of cash at the shop on Hawthorn Street, in the city.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two Police Scotland patrol cars.\" height=\"539\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Alamy\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2wfa5h9-police-scotland-police-cars-888434864_82a712.jpg\" data-caption=\"Police are hunting for the suspect, who also stole money from the shop before fleeing\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2wfa5h9-police-scotland-police-cars-888434864_82a712.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Police are hunting for the suspect, who also stole money from the shop before fleeingCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are hunting for a male suspect &#8211;  described as white, slim and wearing a green and grey tracksuit top, orange shorts, black socks and black trainers &#8211; who fled in the direction of Memel Street following the terrifying incident on Saturday around 9.05pm.<\/p>\n<p>The shopkeeper was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment and is recovering there. It is not known what his condition is.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Greg Turnbull said &#8220;extensive inquiries&#8221; to locate the attacker were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>He urged anyone who knows the identity of the suspect or has private CCTV footage of the area to share it with officers.<\/p>\n<p>\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. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please also check private CCTV and dash-cam footage to see if you have captured something that could assist with our investigation, &#8220;he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can help is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 3850 of Saturday, 16 August, 2025, or make a call anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of families evacuated from homes and army bomb squad raced to scene after &#8216;suspicious object&#8217; found under car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SHOPKEEPER suffered horror injuries after being sprayed with a &#8220;substance&#8221; during a robbery at a store in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,188,918,4884,529,530,712,5120,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scottish-crime","16":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115048546447627749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353613","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=353613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}