{"id":354766,"date":"2025-08-18T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354766\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:17:25","slug":"man-racially-abused-and-left-in-hospital-after-unprovoked-attacked-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354766\/","title":{"rendered":"Man racially abused and left in hospital after &#8216;unprovoked&#8217; attacked in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man was racially abused and left in hospital after being subject to an \u201cunprovoked\u201d attack in North Lanarkshire. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police were contacted after the 49-year-old was assaulted in Harthill at around 7.20pm on Wednesday, August 13.<\/p>\n<p>The man was walking along Miller Street when a Vauxhall Corsa stopped beside him, a man got out of the car, attacked him, and made racial comments.<\/p>\n<p>He attended hospital for treatment to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Completely unacceptable\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched a witness appeal following the incident, which they describe as \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are searching for a white man, aged between 20 and 30 years old, in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a black coloured football top, dark coloured shorts, and trainers at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Detective constable Verity Gregg said: \u201cThis has been an unprovoked attack on a man walking along the street. It is completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing to anyone who was in the area around that time who may have information to get in touch with us. In particular, if you have any dash-cam or doorbell footage, please pass it on as it could provide additional information on the incident or suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland via <strong>101<\/strong>, or please call Crimestoppers on <strong>0800 555 111 <\/strong>where you can give your information anonymously.<\/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 man was racially abused and left in hospital after being subject to an \u201cunprovoked\u201d attack in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354766","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\/115051144535525704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354766","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=354766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}