{"id":85445,"date":"2025-05-08T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85445\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:50:10","slug":"police-issue-update-after-ex-footie-starlet-stabbed-to-death-in-glasgow-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85445\/","title":{"rendered":"Police issue update after ex-footie starlet ‘stabbed’ to death in Glasgow home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are following a ‘positive line of enquiry’ after an ex-footie starlet was ‘stabbed’ to death in a Glasgow home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Youngster Josh Taplin was found dead inside a house in the city’s Knightswood area on Monday, May 5.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old’s body was discovered in a property<\/a> on Caldwell Avenue after cops were alerted to a report of a concern for a person.<\/p>\n

Officers were called\u00a0to the incident at around 3.35pm. After arriving at the scene, tragically, the body of a man, who was later named as Josh, was found inside the home.<\/p>\n

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It is understood that the young lad was stabbed. Following that, detectives from Police Scotland<\/a>‘s Major Investigation Team launched an urgent murder inquiry, with the hunt for a killer underway.<\/p>\n

Now, the force has revealed they are following a ‘positive line of enquiry’ amid the investigation into Josh’s death.<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson said:\u00a0“We are following a positive line of enquiry.”<\/p>\n

Police update after man ‘stabbed’ to death in Glasgow home\u00a0 – Police at the house (right), Josh (left) (Image: Newsquest\/Police Scotland)<\/p>\n

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We reported how a 41-year-old woman was also found injured in the Caldwell Avenue area following the incident.<\/p>\n

She was rushed to hospital for treatment, however, she was later released.<\/p>\n

It is believed that the woman was injured inside the same house where Josh was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are following a ‘positive line of enquiry’ after an ex-footie starlet was ‘stabbed’ to death in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,41149,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-85445","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-josh-taplin","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85445","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=85445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}