Newsagents employee abducts 'frightened' boy, 13, and forces him into back room

Munir Ahmad trapped the 13-year-old schoolboy successful a backmost country of the store successful Glasgow earlier taking a photograph of him and releasing him - helium was aboriginal arrested by police

A store adjunct trapped a lad successful a backmost country earlier taking a photograph of him.

Munir Ahmad grabbed the 13-year-old lad and took him to a backmost country astatine Corkerhill General Store successful Glasgow and stopped him from leaving.

He past took a photograph of the teen. During a proceeding astatine Glasgow Sheriff Court, it was heard however determination was past betwixt the 46-year-old shopkeeper and the schoolboy earlier the lad and a person attended the store connected January 6, 2023.

They some near earlier the teen returned soon aft and shouted wrong the shop, Glasgow Live reports. Prosecutor Hazel Kerr said: "For an chartless reason, Ahmad forcibly grabbed clasp of the lad and took him to the backmost country of the store.

"He did not permission and prevented the lad from leaving. The lad was frightened arsenic Ahmad was larger successful framework and did not cognize what was going to happen."

Ahmad went connected to instrumentality a representation of the lad and closed the door. Miss Kerr added: "Ahmad waited for a fewer much seconds earlier allowing the lad to exit the store."

The lad initially did not archer his parents until they were aboriginal informed by relatives that thing had happened. Police were contacted and CCTV was viewed which corroborated the boy's mentation of events.

Ahmad, of the city's Cardonald, was aboriginal traced and arrested for the matter. He pled blameworthy to abducting the lad and detaining him against his will.

Sentence was deferred pending inheritance reports until adjacent period by Sheriff Louise Arrol KC who granted Ahmad bail successful the meantime.