{"id":635621,"date":"2025-12-16T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635621\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:56:24","slug":"cambuslang-mans-disappearance-out-of-character-as-family-extremely-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635621\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambuslang man’s disappearance ‘out of character’ as family ‘extremely concerned’"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Laird was seen in the Lawmoor Street area in the Gorbals around 8.35am before he was seen around two hours later in the Saltmarket area.\"JamesJames Laird, 39(Image: Police Scotland)<\/p>\n

A police<\/a> search has been launched following the disappearance of a 39-year-old man from Cambuslang. James Laird was last seen<\/a> in the Glasgow city centre area on Monday, December 15 – concerns for his welfare are growing.<\/p>\n

James was seen in Lawmoor Street, Gorbals, around 8.35am before he was spotted around two hours later in the Saltmarket area.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old is known to frequent Glasgow city centre, he is also known to use public transport. He is described as white and around 5ft 8inches tall. When he was last seen he was wearing a black top, a black gilet, dark-blue trousers and black boots with a black beanie hat.<\/p>\n

James’ concerned family say this is ‘completely out of character’ for him, with anyone with information urged to come forward.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames on CCTV<\/p>\n

Inspector Alex Marshall said: \u201cIt is completely out of character for James to go missing and his family are extremely concerned for his wellbeing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is known to frequent Glasgow city centre and uses public transport. I urge anyone who has seen him or who has any information on his whereabouts to contact us as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information should contact 101 quoting incident number 0794 of 15 December 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Laird was seen in the Lawmoor Street area in the Gorbals around 8.35am before he was seen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,10008,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-635621","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-missing-people","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115728179912231455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635621","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=635621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}