{"id":935314,"date":"2026-05-03T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/935314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:24:31","slug":"brazen-edinburgh-youths-caught-on-cctv-disturbing-residents-at-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/935314\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazen Edinburgh youths caught on CCTV &#8216;disturbing&#8217; residents at property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group were caught on CCTV<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The moment was caught on camera \" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_IMG_5145-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"The moment was caught on camera \" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The moment was caught on camera <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The moment Edinburgh youths caused an alleged &#8216;disturbance&#8217; at a property has been caught on camera. The footage was shared by a resident who claims the group have approached her property in Niddrie a number of times over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The youths have allegedly knocked on the door repeatedly, damaged a car outside the home and used abusive language towards the residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a clip seen by Edinburgh Live, one of the young individuals can be seen underneath a car before the group quickly run away. One member was on a bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The incident has not been reported to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">On April 17 2026, we reported on a gang of masked youths were caught prowling around an Edinburgh neighbourhood after dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The incident took place in the early hours on Gilmerton Dykes Crescent. Startling footage shows a group of what appears to be six masked and hooded figures walking along the road in the dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One of the youths seems to break off from the throng and approach the resident&#8217;s doorstep, triggering an automatic porch light to switch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group were caught on CCTV The moment was caught on camera The moment Edinburgh youths caused an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,236825,457,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-935314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-niddrie","tag-people","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116511576457982007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935314","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=935314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}