{"id":640269,"date":"2025-12-18T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:14:22","slug":"police-want-to-speak-to-this-man-after-incident-in-waterstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640269\/","title":{"rendered":"Police want to speak to this man after incident in Waterstones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An appeal has been issued<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/601348039_1175916744715902_8598002063371537133_n.jpg\" alt=\"Police want to speak to this man\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police want to speak to this man(Image: GMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers have released an image of a man they wish to speak to following an incident at a Waterstones in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-centre\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Manchester city centre<\/a>. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> is investigating an incident which took place at the store on Sunday afternoon (December 14).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">incident<\/a> allegedly involved a theft and a threat of assault at 2.30pm that day. GMP has today (Thursday) issued an appeal for help as part of its investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It has released a CCTV image showing a man who could be a key witness in the investigation. The man pictured, or anyone with information that could assist officers, is asked to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A GMP spokesperson said: &#8220;We would like to speak to this man as we believe he can help with our investigation of theft and a threat of assault at Waterstones in the city centre on December 14 at around 2:30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;If you have any information, please contact us on 101 or LiveChat quoting CRI\/06A2\/0035497\/25. We are committed to tackling retail crime in Greater Manchester.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeal has been issuedPolice want to speak to this man(Image: GMP) Officers have released an image of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,2465,8086,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115740756055384149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640269","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=640269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}