{"id":603378,"date":"2025-11-30T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603378\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:04:18","slug":"wick-public-toilets-on-whitechapel-road-vandalised-once-more-sparking-police-scotland-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603378\/","title":{"rendered":"Wick public toilets on Whitechapel Road vandalised once more \u2014 sparking Police Scotland appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 4080 1884\" alt=\"No expense was spared in the refurbishment of the Whitechapel toilets in Wick but the facility has been the frequent target of vandals. Picture: DGS\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"ZJ78KNMV6BNRQ3T5FE45.jpg\" data-ar=\"2.17\"\/>No expense was spared in the refurbishment of the Whitechapel toilets in Wick but the facility has been the frequent target of vandals. Picture: DGS<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk\/news\/cctv-footage-in-hands-of-police-after-vandalism-at-395-000-419680\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Wick\u2019s public toilets were vandalised on multiple occasions<\/a> over the past months.<\/p>\n<p>The toilets on Whitechapel Road were reopened in the summer of 2024 after a \u00a3395K refurbishment \u2014 however despite constant CCTV coverage, the facility has still been the target of regular acts of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Now Police Scotland has issued an appeal for information after facilities have been vandalised on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The public toilets were first vandalised on Saturday, September 27 \u2014 overnight into Sunday, and then again on the night between Thursday, October 23 and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vandalism continued on the evening of Friday, October 24 and once again between 6am on Saturday, November 22 4.50am on Sunday, 23 November.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting the incident number PS-20251123-0666.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, information can be passed anonymously to Crimestoppers &#8211; 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No expense was spared in the refurbishment of the Whitechapel toilets in Wick but the facility has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,188,5899,4884,8887,1501,712,16,15,5900],"class_list":{"0":"post-603378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-free","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-highland-council","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-update-me"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115638794198076165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603378","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=603378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}