{"id":694908,"date":"2026-01-14T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694908\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:38:22","slug":"pair-charged-for-attempted-daylight-robberies-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694908\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair charged for attempted daylight robberies in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO people have been arrested and charged in connection with two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/tag\/robberies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempted robberies<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/tag\/daylight-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broad daylight <\/a>in Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair are accused of robbing a premises on Colinton Mains Drive after 9am on Monday morning and swiftly moving on to another robbery, this time on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxgangs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxgangs<\/a> Road North.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured, but the 18-year-old woman and 24-year-old appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotcourts.gov.uk\/courts-and-tribunals\/courts-tribunals-and-office-locations\/find-us\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-and-justice-of-the-peace-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Sherriff Court<\/a> today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/tag\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> initially asked members of the public \u201cnot to speculate on the circumstances\u201d due to reports of \u201cinaccurate information\u201d spreading around\u00a0regarding\u00a0the incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ROBBERIES_OXGANGS_DN01.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"a1a39f\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a1a39f;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ROBBERIES_OXGANGS_DN01.jpg\" alt=\"The second robbery took place on Oxgangs Road North at around 9:50am\" class=\"wp-image-1253560 not-transparent\"  \/><\/a>The second robbery took place on Oxgangs Road North at around 9:50am<\/p>\n<p>At around 9:30am on Monday morning, police responded to a report of an attempted robbery at\u00a0the\u00a0premises on Colinton Mains Drive in the south of Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just\u00a020\u00a0minutes later, police received a second report of attempted robbery, this time on Oxgangs Road North.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries during either robbery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to each\u00a0incident and\u00a0have now arrested\u00a0the\u00a0man\u00a0and\u00a0woman in connection with the crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detective\u00a0inspector Alan Sharp said: \u201cI want to thank members of the public who assisted with these incidents before officers arrived and the local community for their support during our enquiries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said that specialist resources remained on each scene for some time following their response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They previously asked the public not to\u00a0speculate\u00a0on the circumstances surrounding the incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident,\u00a0inspector Paul Begley said: \u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0aware of inaccurate information being shared\u00a0regarding\u00a0these incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d\u00a0ask the public not to\u00a0speculate\u00a0on the circumstances but be reassured officers are in the area and there have been no reports of injuries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information or concerns can approach these officers or call us on 101.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO people have been arrested and charged in connection with two attempted robberies in broad daylight in Edinburgh.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[24242,748,209707,1102,209708,209709,24538,4884,209710,209711,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-attempted-robbery","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-daylight-robbery","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-edinburgh-police","13":"tag-edinburgh-robbery","14":"tag-edinburgh-sheriff-court","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-oxgangs","17":"tag-oxgangs-robbery","18":"tag-police-scotland","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115892316066932436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694908","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=694908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}