{"id":451511,"date":"2025-09-25T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/451511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:36:20","slug":"armed-thug-tried-to-kill-a-man-at-popular-celtic-pub-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/451511\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed thug tried to kill a man at popular Celtic pub in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-no-modal=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/graces.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of Graces, a bar with black walls and windows, displaying &quot;Graces&quot; in white letters, located on a city street.\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15384167\" width=\"907\" height=\"589\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A YOUNG thug who tried to kill a man at a popular Celtic pub has been locked up for six years.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Njoku brutally attacked Olaoluwakiitan Olowoyo in Grace\u2019s Bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/glasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow\u2019s<\/a> Merchant City on January 4 last year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Scottish Sun newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"15384048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dy0x1m-front-access-doorway-wall-1024758386.jpg\" alt=\"Front access doorway and wall with Justiciary motif, High Court of Justiciary, Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain, UK\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15384048\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2663\"  \/>Emmanuel Njoku has been jailed for six years after savagely attacking another man at a pubCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors stated the now 22 year-old punched and kicked his victim before repeatedly stabbing him with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Njoku had been at a 21st birthday celebration at the pub that night.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow, having earlier been convicted of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged Njoku was on two bail orders at the time and also had a previous conviction for having an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"article-readmore__text-anchor-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/news\/15382889\/tragedy-person-dies-hit-train-busy-scotrail-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" width=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sdp15-01-2020_096ajpg-JS772986037_8578f8.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-readmore__text-kicker\">RAIL DEATH<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-readmore__text-headline\">Tragedy as person dies after being hit by train on busy ScotRail line<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"article-readmore__text-anchor-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/news\/15383214\/cops-seal-busy-glasgow-lane-rape-city-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" width=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/POLICE_GLASGOW_03JPG-JS1026411340_53bff2.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-readmore__text-kicker\">LANE LOCKED DOWN<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-readmore__text-headline\">Cops seal off busy Glasgow lane after &#8216;rape&#8217; in city centre<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judge Matt Jackson KC remarked Njoku had suffered racist abuse as a youngster and latterly had a good \u201cwork ethic\u201d, which made his decision to arm himself with a knife \u201call the more baffling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He will also be supervised for a further 18 months on his release.<\/p>\n<p>Njoku was joined in the dock by 18 year-old Dede Bankole.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager had been convicted at the same trial of assaulting Donnel Sarr that night in Grace\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have punched, kicked and stamped on the man to his injury and danger of life.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson stated CCTV footage of that incident displayed the \u201chorrible degree of violence\u201d inflicted.<\/p>\n<p>After consideration, he had decided not to keep Bankole in custody.<\/p>\n<p>He had been on remand pending sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Bankole was instead put on a two-year community payback order.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that, he must do 250 hours of unpaid work and is subject to a nine-month curfew keeping him indoors between 7pm and 7am each night.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson said this will be \u201ca reminder how close\u201d he came to a custodial sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A YOUNG thug who tried to kill a man at a popular Celtic pub has been locked up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,30,188,918,4884,530,1889,712,5120,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-451511","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-crime","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-pubs","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-scottish-crime","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115267566670220690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451511","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=451511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}