UK 'Shocking' rise in rapes and violent attacks against women in Glasgow - Glasgow is in the midst of a “deepening crisis” around women’s safety. In Scotland's largest city, instances of domestic abuse and rapes have surged by 41% compared to the previous year.

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STV News. Published: 4 April 2025

'Shocking' rise in rapes and violent attacks against women in Glasgow​

Instances of domestic abuse and rapes have surged by 41%, according to statistics from the Safe Glasgow Partnership.


Glasgow City Labour councillors demand 'immediate and sustained action' to tackle what they call the city's 'deepening crisis' around women’s safety.

Glasgow City is in the midst of a “deepening crisis” around women’s safety, statistics show.

Instances of domestic abuse are up by 41% on the previous year, rapes increased by 41%, and sexual assault has risen by 28%, according to figures from the Safe Glasgow Partnership.

Glasgow Labour deputy leader Bailie Soryia Siddique said that women and girls in Glasgow are “being let down” after the latest “shocking” statistics.

“Too many are forced to change their routines, avoid certain places, or travel in fear — simply because public spaces aren’t safe,” councillor Siddique said.

The Safe Glasgow Partnership data shows 357 rape crimes were recorded during 2024-25 compared to 254 during the previous year. Domestic abuse crimes against women stand at 192 so far compared to 136 the previous year.

In light of the figures, councillor Siddique brought a motion demanding “immediate and sustained action” to tackle the “deepening crisis” around women’s safety.

“I speak from lived experience: from learning to shrink myself just to feel safe, being told to keep my voice down, to avoid eye contact, to walk quickly, never make a fuss, to blend in even when clearly every part of me stood out,” she said.

She said that, as a working-class woman of colour in Glasgow, “safety isn’t something you’re given, but something you’re expected to fight for”.

Her motion saw councillors recognise women’s safety as a “fundamental right” and agree on a set of actions to help tackle violence against women and girls in the city.

It outlined key actions, including an emergency summit on violence against women and girls, the creation of a Glasgow Women’s Safety Action Plan, a city-wide consultation, and a Women’s Safety Charter.

It also calls on the Scottish Government to provide targeted support for areas facing rising levels of violence and to back specialist units to tackle VAWG as part of the next Police Plan for Glasgow.

A healthy masculinity action plan for boys and young men will also be introduced to promote the uptake of in-school mental health services among boys.

Cllr Siddique said the motion provides “clear, practical steps” to make Glasgow safer.

“We owe it to every woman and girl in Glasgow to act — not tomorrow, but now,” she said.

Detective chief inspector Neil Guy said Police Scotland is committed to working with partners to help ensure that women and girls across Glasgow feel safe and supported in their communities.

“Any increase in the number of rapes is concerning. However, our approach to sexual crime is victim-centred, and I want to reassure anyone affected that they will be fully supported by specialist officers who will carry out a thorough investigation to identify and apprehend those responsible,” Mr Guy said.

“Tackling violence against women and girls remains a key priority, and we continue to take action every day to prevent harm, support victims and bring perpetrators to justice.”

He added that tackling domestic abuse is one of Police Scotland’s most significant priorities.

“Understanding the underlying issues and putting effective prevention strategies in place with partners is key,” he said.

Mr Guy added: “We encourage anyone who experiences or witnesses unacceptable behaviour to report it to police. We remain committed to working with communities and partners to improve safety and build confidence among women and girls across Glasgow.”

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Totally unrelated, I'm sure...
https://www.gbnews.com/news/glasgow-migrant-crisis-asylum-capital-keir-starmer-arrivals [Archive] Published: 3 April 2025

'Untenable!' Britain's asylum capital begs Keir Starmer to halt migrant arrivals as crisis risks 'social unrest'​

Officials fear the number of people applying for accommodation is becoming 'unsustainable' despite the city's historically welcoming attitude towards refugees.

Glasgow City Council has warned that the asylum system is damaging social cohesion in the city due to unprecedented pressure on housing.
Scotland's second city is now the largest dispersal area for asylum seekers in the UK after London.

The council is considering asking Sir Keir Starmer for a pause on asylum dispersal because of the strain it is placing on the city's resources.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...f-the-snp-over-immigration-finally-laid-bare/ [Archive] Published: 3 April 2025

The hypocrisy of the SNP over immigration is finally laid bare​

The Scottish government wanted to prove they were morally superior to England, but they have been bitten by reality.

There is nothing like a dose of reality to shake the politically idealistic out of their fanciful notions.

Take Glasgow, for example.

The SNP administration in Scotland’s largest city wants the minister responsible for asylum to consider a pause to the asylum dispersal scheme. This sees large numbers of applicants for refugee status arriving there every year.

This, according to Councillor Allan Casey, Glasgow City Council’s convener for homelessness, is “damaging social cohesion” and placing unbearable pressure on the city’s social housing supply.

It’s quite the reversal for a party that has dined out for years on its claim to be progressive and welcoming of immigration to Scotland.

Indeed, one of the major planks of the independence project is the claim that Scots are far more tolerant of diversity and multiculturalism than their counterparts south of the border.

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/gl...-refugees-putting-pressure-on-public-services [Archive] Published: 8 April 2025

Council 'struggling' with number of refugees putting pressure on public services​

Glasgow City Council held a meeting on Monday to discuss the issue, but the UK Government's representative cancelled.

Glasgow City Council has said the number of homeless refugees and asylum seekers is putting public services under too much pressure, and is struggling to cope with demand.

The city has built its reputation on being welcoming and open to people of all races and nationalities, proud of its “People Make Glasgow” brand.

However, the council’s statement on the issue has caused some to doubt that slogan.

It comes as a UK Government minister cancelled their attendance at a meeting on Monday morning with the Scottish Government, council and other representatives to discuss the situation in the city.

Glasgow houses around 4,000 asylum seekers, which the council has warned is too many to cope with.

The city has declared a housing emergency, with record numbers of homeless people living in temporary accommodation.

 

[northstar747]

Scotland's biggest obsession is that it is a "special place" and "better" than the rest of the UK.

this statement hurts my brain.

okay help me out here, amount the english welsh scottish and irish which group is the most retarded?

 

[stupid frog]

All I can do is lazily scroll through this, and be like, yes I am racist now.
You guys on the farms are OK, but in real life, I am just over it.

How can leftist retards read this shit again and again and again and not put the pieces together?

 

[Pomniman]

How can leftist retards read this shit again and again and again and not put the pieces together?

They're perpetually buck-broken into submission by constant streams of propaganda from all the media they consume and everyone they talk to aggressively regurgitating it back at them so as to performatively display antiracism. Admitting no one wants to be around darkies for good reason is worth at least 1.5 MegaHitler units on the scale from good goy to problematic chud.

 

[Ingmar Aspergman]

How can leftist retards read this shit again and again and again and not put the pieces together?

They want it to happen, it’s retribution for colonialism or something. During Oct 7, leftists weren’t denying the mass rapes (yet), I saw some black guy say “this is what decolonization looks like”. They are totally accepting of sexual violence if it’s targeted at the right people.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

this statement hurts my brain.

okay help me out here, amount the english welsh scottish and irish which group is the most retarded?

The Welsh probably come in for the worst of it, I think. They're never beating the sheepshagger allegations.

Personally, though, I think the Scottish are worse. The more I think about it, that place is a proper lolcountry. The people are as miserly as Jews and with as much potential for senseless violence as niggers, all the women are fat and unattractive and, as a result, all the men dress transgenderedly. And they all nurse a bitter, seething, A-Log-esque hatred of their betters, the English, while the English, for their part, barely acknowledge they exist and rarely think about them at all. So strong is their spiteful resentment towards the English that the Scottish can actually be persuaded to do things that will actively fuck their country over, simply because the English are NOT doing those things, and ye dinnae want tae be like the hated Sassenachs, do ye?

However, I fully believe that, secretly, if every Scottish person in the world was presented with a big red button labelled 'BECOME ENGLISH' that, if they pressed it, would magically free them of their disgusting disfigurement of being Scottish, they would instantly slam that shit so fucking hard with their whole palm, over and over again, just so long as nobody would ever find out.

 

[The Nothingness]

Hmm...nothing about the demographics

 

[Sneeter Rabbit]

The SNP 'government' has constructed a fiction around Scotland being more amenable to immigration because it was rhetorically convenient to do so while the tories were in power. This fiction was built from a miserly handful of polls and made into a Potemkin cultural value, depicting an intrinsically 'welcoming society.'
Likewise, the tories rhetorically opposed migration while planting millions of Africans & Co. across the entire island. Just hot air from politicians and their pet journos.
I can imagine that immigration really was less of a polarising issue here ten years ago, but times change quickly with hundreds of thousands of annual arrivals. The propaganda is no longer sustainable.
As with so much of the little woman's dribble, Swinney is quietly rolling it back to save his and his grubby parade of career politicians' hides. He will fail, for the simple reason that the little woman's sole notable contribution to Scotland's political life was fully remaking the SNP into a vehicle for enforcing her outdated beliefs, regardless of what the country or even its few remaining members actually want.

Personally, though, I think the Scottish are worse. The more I think about it

You think of us too much already. Perhaps you should put that thought into getting a national inquiry into a certain horrific betrayal insteasd.

 

[Marvin]

Why are Scottish men suddenly so much more rapey and abusive all of a sudden?

All of a sudden? They've always been a nation of barely literate, never sober, rape apes.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

All of a sudden? They've always been a nation of barely literate, never sober, rape apes.

When we use the "I learned it by watching you" meme should we be using the English, the French, the Italians, the Vikings or someone else?

 

[LemonMice]

would this have anything to do with the fact Glasgow is a dumping ground for migrants?

Whites, NW europeans, whatever you want to call us need to put our foot down already and stop being polite. Our extraordinary amounts of self-control is screwing us all over. They aren't going to listen to words, reason or plights. This is your backyard, you literally genetically belong there, and whatever politics that oppose you can go get bent.

"As someone whose policies imported the ones committing the rapings, I'll ignore that it's my own countrymen doing it, and blame my generous hosts who let me escape the rapes back home and immediately recreate the problem here."

Can't "fix" them without some hardcore eugenics and artificial selection. She's just an invader and genetically belongs in some region between west asia and india.

I'm not sure why you would less of your own people and more of others. None of this should be tolerated.

The invaders should all be made very very uncomfortable.

We really don't need anyone. We don't need labourers. We don't need middle-men, nobody. If you want more geniuses, then get your former child prodigies and accomplished geniuses to become gamete donors and create embryos for surrogacy. Then encourage some commoners to cuck out and raise whiz kids. With a critical mass of this new caste of people, they can run an innovation system to create wealth, jobs, progress blah blah blah

 

[ToroidalBoat]

elect communists

Were they really elected though?

 

[WonderWino]

So.... what they're saying is we've gone from the problem with scotland being that its full of scots to being that its full of 'scots' then?

What happened to the days when the scots were ornery bastards who would upside your head with a claymore and use your insides to make haggis if you pissed them off?

On a related note, I wonder if this has anything to do with miss scotland saying the gamer word

 

[Coldgrip]

So.... what they're saying is we've gone from the problem with scotland being that its full of scots to being that its full of 'scots' then?

What happened to the days when the scots were ornery bastards who would upside your head with a claymore and use your insides to make haggis if you pissed them off?

On a related note, I wonder if this has anything to do with miss scotland saying the gamer word

The english killed most of them off and WW2 finished to job the limey's started.

People say the Germans are the most cucked, other the English, I'll always maintain it's the Scots.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

How can leftist retards read this shit again and again and again and not put the pieces together?

I guess it's cult-ish indoctrination. Like how one who believes the world is flat because their religion says so refuses to accept all the evidence that the world is round. If SJWs see that unrestricted immigration is what's leading to the surge in crime, they could get "cancelled" by their fellow "decent human beings" for such non-conformity.

 

[BulkForceFive]

One of the few times I'm asking 'is it migrants?" honestly, because violence and rape in Glasgow is like wetness in the ocean.

 

[Sneeter Rabbit]

One of the few times I'm asking 'is it migrants?" honestly, because violence and rape in Glasgow is like wetness in the ocean.

Glaswog has always been more closely associated with gang violence than gang rape. The nu-neds are violent and yes, there are plenty of dirty bastards in the city but that can't account for a 41% spike in this specific type of crime.
It stands to reason that merkel's bearded children are the cause.

 

[Haramburger]

The nice thing about American Renaissance Faires is that they're now whiter than the countries that inspired them.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

They want it to happen, it’s retribution for colonialism or something. During Oct 7, leftists weren’t denying the mass rapes (yet), I saw some black guy say “this is what decolonization looks like”. They are totally accepting of sexual violence if it’s targeted at the right people.

I actually think this is true. This is what leftist men (and some women) actually want.

It’s the same reason for people supporting trannies in women’s sports: can’t have all those pretty fit girls having fun and winning and getting paid, gotta cut em down to size.

Leftist misogyny: an alliance of bitter soyboys and ugly fat HAAS cat ladies.

EDIT: don’t forget that the Hamas mass rapes happened to young hotties at a music festival

 

[Snekposter]

would this have anything to do with the fact Glasgow is a dumping ground for migrants?

I thought it was just Glasgow being you know... Glasgow. The Scots don't need help when it comes to being violent and abusive.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Glasgow, which is buckling under the weight of thousands of asylum seekers, is facing a massive rise in sexual assault and domestic violence incidents. Labour Deputy Leader Councillor Soryia Siddique has called for "clear, practical steps" such as a 'masculinity action plan' for boys and young men.

Even if you are the world's greatest comedian, you couldn't possible come up with anything that is as absolutely ridiculous as the current state of things in Kebab-Bongland.