{"id":35413,"date":"2025-04-20T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35413\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:01:18","slug":"teenager-rushed-to-hospital-after-serious-assault-in-port-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35413\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager rushed to hospital after serious assault in Port Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident at around 6.30am in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, has sparked a major police probe.<\/p>\n<p>15:09, 19 Apr 2025Updated 15:12, 19 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_port-glasgow.jpg\" alt=\"crime scene port glasgow\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Investigators at the scene of suspected assault in Port Glasgow on Saturday(Image: Alex Craig)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A teenager has been rushed to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">hospital<\/a> after an apparent early-hours assault saw three streets cordoned off in Inverclyde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"CopsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cops<\/a> said a 15-year-old boy had been taken to hospital for treatment following the incident in the Princes Street area of Port Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers were called to a report of an <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"assaultLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">assault<\/a> at around 6.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Witnesses said <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"officersLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">officers<\/a> and CID investigators have been in attendance as part of a heavy police presence on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police sealed off Princes Street, King Street and Church Street in the town centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police ScotlandLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cAbout 6.30am on Saturday, 19 April, 2025 we were called to a report of a youth having been assaulted in the Princes Street area of Port Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOfficers attended and a 15-year-old was taken to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hospitalLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">hospital<\/a> for treatment. Enquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnyone with information is asked to call <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police ScotlandLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> on 101 quoting incident number 0621 of Saturday, 19 April, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Images from the scene showed CID officers collecting evidence into plastic bags, as well as a number of yellow markers pointing out items of interest on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident at around 6.30am in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, has sparked a major police probe. 15:09, 19 Apr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-35413","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-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114369953144866615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35413","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=35413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}