Image caption, The man was arrested in Glasgow's Govan area
Scotland home affairs correspondentPublished11 August 2026, 08:38 BSTUpdated 28 minutes agoPolice have arrested a man over an attack on a delivery driver during disorder in Glasgow city centre last month.
A traffic cone was thrown at Muhammad Jawad Yaqoob, 31, following an anti-immigration protest at Glasgow Green on 25 July.
Officers have charged a 29-year-old man with racially-aggravated assault over the incident, which was filmed and widely shared on social media.
He was arrested in the Govan area of the city. Fifteen people were arrested on the day of the protests.
Police Scotland said a major investigation team was trying to identify more suspects and further arrests are planned.
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An anti-racism protest had taken place at Glasgow Green before counter-protesters turned up at the scene last month.
Police said "disparate groups" engaged in acts of violence, disorder, intimidation and hate-motivated offences at various locations - all coinciding with the opening weekend of the Commonwealth Games.
The force said 1,700 people were in attendance and an operation was put in place to support public safety and minimise disruption.
Delivery driver Yaqoob previously told BBC Scotland News he felt too afraid to leave his home or return to work after the incident.
He had just picked up an order from the Palm Tree Kitchen on Bridge Street in Glasgow on the Saturday afternoon when he encountered dozens of protestors.
Yaqoob, who moved to Glasgow from Pakistan, told the BBC he has mostly found Scotland to be a welcoming place - but that his recent experience had "not been welcoming at all".
The video of the attack shows a number of young men shouting abuse before one throws the orange cone. They cheer as Yaquoob runs away from them into a nearby restaurant.
He previously told the BBC: "When I crossed the road away from the crowd a man shouted, 'you brownie, you Asian, you Pakistani' and other racial abuse at me.
"One guy then tried to hit me with a traffic cone. So I ran around the back of the shop then Uber sent me a message asking me to complete my delivery.
"Uber didn't know what had happened to me so I completed my delivery then returned to the shop and said I was going to report it to the police and asked for the CCTV footage."
Yaqoob said the restaurant did not have CCTV but he reported the incident anyway.
He said when he arrived home and went online he discovered the video of the incident had spread on social media, as far as his home country.
"Now I am so scared, I am upset," he said.
"I haven't been able to go back to my work since the incident. I am fearful it will happen again but I have bills to pay so I can't just sit at home."
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