A man has been charged with attempted murder after being accused of carrying out a stabbing attack in a Lanarkshire supermarket last weekend.
Ben Jenkins, 34, of Johnstone in Renfrewshire, entered no plea at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
A 25-year-old woman was alleged to have been attacked by Jenkins at the Tesco store on Dalmarnock Road in Rutherglen.
Emergency services raced to the scene and the shop was closed for the day as a result.
The woman is currently in a stable condition in hospital following the reported incident.
Staff at the store are believed to have set off the fire alarm to clear the supermarket of customers during chaotic scenes.
One stunned shopper, who was turned away from Tesco as she arrived, told Lanarkshire Live : "We pulled into the Tesco store in Rutherglen on Saturday afternoon, just after 2pm, and it was swarmed with police officers.
"A staff member was stopping cars at the roundabout and told us he was very sorry, the store had been closed for the day due to a major incident but that the petrol station was still open.
"There was easily eight police cars in the car park and police tape at the entrance to the door. No one was getting near the area.
"You could tell it was something very serious."
A Police Scotland spokeswoman told Lanarkshire Live : “Officers were called to a serious assault at a premises on Dalmarnock Road, Rutherglen at around 1.30pm on Saturday, 9 July, 2022.
“A 25-year-old woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
“A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection, and appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday, 11 July, 2022."
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