{"id":663589,"date":"2025-12-31T00:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:39:32","slug":"glasgow-forge-shoppers-terrified-as-man-arrested-following-disturbance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663589\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Forge shoppers ‘terrified’ as man arrested following ‘disturbance’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witnesses reported hearing cries of ‘he has a knife’ – although Police Scotland have stated that a blade was not involved in the alleged incident.\"ForgeA man has been arrested after an incident at Glasgow’s Forge Shopping Centre on Monday(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

Shoppers at Glasgow’s <\/a>Forge Shopping Centre were left ‘terrified’ yesterday (Monday, December 29) during an alleged disturbance which led to a man being arrested. Witnesses reported hearing cries of ‘he has a knife’ and fleeing to safety, although Police Scotland have since stated that a blade was not involved in the disturbance.<\/p>\n

Debbie McGhee and her 11-year-old son <\/a>Jack were out to spend some of their Christmas money in Parkhead when they heard a “commotion” coming from outside the Savers store where they were shopping.<\/p>\n

Debbie told Glasgow Live<\/a>: “I just thought it was something minor, nothing serious, and then I heard somebody shouting ‘he’s got a knife’. We just looked at each other and ran to the back of the store. We were hiding at the back of the store and could hear more screaming and shouting.”<\/p>\n

\"GlasgowGlasgow Forge in Parkhead(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

Police have stated that a knife or blade was not involved in the incident, but that a 34-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with a theft and disturbance. He is due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court<\/a> today (Tuesday, December 30).<\/p>\n

Debbie, who has just finished treatment for breast cancer, and her son were left extremely shaken. She added: “My son is autistic as well so he was absolutely terrified. I did not know what to do. It was a terrifying situation.”<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 5.20pm on Monday, 29 December, police received a report of a theft and disturbance in the Gallowgate area of Glasgow. A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the incident, and is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday, 30 December.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses reported hearing cries of ‘he has a knife’ – although Police Scotland have stated that a blade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,188,918,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-663589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115811396548872373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663589","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=663589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}