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"It's shocking that something like that can happen in a main shopping precinct in the middle of the day. It's just so sad."

"The city centre is dead, it's like a shopping precinct graveyard," he said "It's depressing if you've grown up in Glasgow."

The redevelopment scheme would replace a "tired 1980s" shopping precinct which, once the shops shut, became a "dangerous and unhappy place" with a modern area which could be enjoyed all year round, he said.

Ashley McGurk, 32, was assaulted while walking near Harpurhey shopping precinct in Manchester on 24 December 2011.

On Kingstanding Circle almost every unit in the local shopping precinct is now boarded up and Farmfoods is moving out later this year.