{"id":793242,"date":"2026-10-06T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:54:11","slug":"police-appeal-for-victim-and-witnesses-to-come-forward-after-sexual-assault-on-kilmarnock-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793242\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for victim and witnesses to come forward after sexual assault on Kilmarnock train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives are appealing for the victim and witnesses of a sexual assault on board a Kilmarnock-bound train to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident took place on a service from Glasgow at around 8:30pm on Thursday, October 1.<\/p>\n<p>A man reportedly sexually assaulted a woman before being ejected from the train, with the woman later getting off at Kilmarnock station.<\/p>\n<p>A British Transport Police spokesperson said: \u201cA man in his 30s was arrested in connection on suspicion of sexual assault, and has since been released under investigation while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives are urgently appealing for the victim of the assault, and for anyone who may have witnessed the incident, to come forward and help the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contacted British Transport Police by texting 61016 or calling 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference 828 of October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Details can also be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously by contacting 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791251651_139_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives are appealing for the victim and witnesses of a sexual assault on board a Kilmarnock-bound train to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}