{"id":951420,"date":"2026-05-10T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951420\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:30:18","slug":"west-lothian-walker-makes-bizarre-discovery-before-contacting-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951420\/","title":{"rendered":"West Lothian walker makes bizarre discovery before contacting police"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The area we found it in was quite secluded’<\/p>\n

20:45, 10 May 2026Updated 20:50, 10 May 2026<\/p>\n

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The object looked like a safe that had been set on fire.<\/p>\n

A West Lothian<\/a> woman has made a peculiar discovery while walking on a path between Winchburgh and Newton. Kim Maxwell was out on Sunday, May 10, when she came across what she believed to be a burned-out safe.<\/p>\n

Kim was aware of local break-ins<\/a> in the local area and thinks the object may be related to such incidents. She described seeing charred pages with Arabic writing on it as well as a set of keys dumped behind the safe.<\/p>\n

After coming across the items, Kim said she filled out an online form to alert police to the scene.<\/p>\n

She said: “I suppose it was likely linked to a burglary as I’m aware there\u2019s been quite a few. It was completely burnt out so I suppose somebody had tried to hide evidence.<\/p>\n

“It appeared like the door had been opened with a set of keys which were dumped behind it. We just felt really bad for whoever it belonged to.<\/p>\n

“We reported it to the police, just using their online forum. I called 101 but as it wasn\u2019t an emergency, so I thought it best to fill in the form as advised.<\/p>\n

“We tried not to touch anything just in case the police came for a look but I noticed some burnt out pages with Arabic writing on them, so hopefully that might help identify the owners.<\/p>\n

“The area we found it in was quite secluded. So it was probably an ideal location to break into it.”<\/p>\n

Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The area we found it in was quite secluded’ 20:45, 10 May 2026Updated 20:50, 10 May 2026 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,16,15,27436],"class_list":{"0":"post-951420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-west-lothian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552887617828000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951420","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=951420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}