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Police Probe Reported Threat in Sainsbury's Women's Toilets in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Police have opened a witness appeal alongside a review of store CCTV.

Overview

  • Staffordshire Police confirmed they received a report that a teenage girl heard a man shouting in a women's toilet cubicle around 3pm on November 10.
  • The girl fled and told her parents, and her mother later described her as terrified in a Facebook post reported by local media.
  • The mother said store CCTV showed a hooded man leaving the toilets, a detail not independently confirmed by police.
  • Officers attended the Liverpool Road store on November 11 to liaise with security and review CCTV, and inquiries remain ongoing.
  • Police say it is not known who the man was shouting at, and they have announced no arrests or identification; witnesses are asked to call 101 quoting incident 723 of November 10 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously.