Shopping trolley used by security guard to fend off angry shoplifter in Pak’nSave car park

Friday, 26 June 2026

It was baseball bat versus shopping trolley in the car park of Pak’nSave in Mill St when Tracy-Ann Glasgow attempted to make off with more than $200 in unpaid groceries.

A Pak’nSave security guard was forced to defend himself with a shopping trolley as a shoplifter he was confronting came at him with an aluminium bat during a wild Boxing Day fracas.

Details of the unruly scene in the supermarket’s car park were revealed during the sentencing of 45-year-old Hamilton woman Tracy-Ann Glasgow in the Hamilton District Court on Wednesday.

It was about 6pm on December 26 last year when Glasgow arrived at the Mill St store in her Honda Fit car, with an associate and a child in the vehicle with her.

She entered the store and made her way around the aisles, filling her trolley with $206 worth of groceries.

Then she left, pushing the trolley straight through the self-service checkout without stopping to pay.

Tracy-Ann Glasgow, pictured here in December last year on the security cameras of the Z service station in Huntly, where she put $30 worth of fuel into her car - and then drove off without paying.

The checkout supervisor alerted the security guard to what was happening and, after quickly reviewing the store’s CCTV footage, went out to confront Glasgow as she was loading her haul of stolen groceries into the car.

Glasgow pushed him away a number of times as she continued to load the groceries into the Honda. Further pushing and shoving took place between them. Several groceries fell onto the ground.

Glasgow grabbed the body camera attached to the guard’s chest, pulling it off the mount as she repeatedly assaulted him.

In the struggle the guard obtained Glasgow’s cellphone, which she had also dropped onto the ground. A quick discussion was had over an exchange of the two items. But when the guard handed her the phone she did not give him back the camera.

Glasgow instead went back to her car, from which she obtained the bat - and then went after the guard with the bat held up, ready to strike.

The guard, who had been joined by the checkout supervisor, saw her coming and grabbed the trolley, placing it between them.

Glasgow pushed the trolley aside and struck the guard on his left side with the bat. There was another struggle and he managed to wrest the bat from her.

There was pushing and shoving and groceries getting dropped on the ground as a security guard attempted to stop Tracy-Ann Glasgow from heading away with her haul of stolen groceries.

The supervisor was on the phone to the police, and Glasgow then attacked her, grabbing her arm and trying to snatch the phone from her hand a number of times.

Unsuccessful, she returned to her car and this time took off.

The police did not encounter Glasgow until the afternoon of December 31, when they spotted the Honda Fit driving though Hamilton.

She saw the patrol car behind her and hit the accelerator.

In her flight she drove into a cul-de-sac, and her pursuers seized on the opportunity to lay road spikes across the entrance.

She drove up to the spikes and stopped. A police officer had time to tell her she was under arrest before she reversed, managed to drive out around the spikes, and got away.

In any event, she ended up parking the Honda a short distance away and tried to run from the police on foot. She was caught and arrested moments later.

Glasgow was charged with assault with a weapon, common assault, shoplifting, failing to stop for police, aggravated assault, and two counts of theft.

Those two latter charges related to petrol drive-offs from the BP Connect service station in Taupiri and Z Huntly on December 19 and 22.

She was also sentenced on a charge of aggravated burglary. On that count she had the company of a co-offender, Daryl Ian George Walker, 53, who was facing the same charge along with a number of drug-related charges.

The pair, along with an unidentified third person, had gone to a flat on Albert St, Hamilton, on the night of June 8 last year.

Walker was armed with a taser, and the third person had a claw hammer. They kicked the front door in, breaking a security chain in the process.

They found and confronted a man who was living in the flat, as two women who were also there fled the scene and called the police.

The third home invader took the taser from Walker and used it and the hammer to assault the victim, while Glasgow took numerous items from the flat, including a Nixon watch worth about $500 and a Stony Creek jacket worth $220.

The police arrived after the three invaders left, however one of the officers spotted Glasgow in a nearby street. At the time, there were warrants out for her arrest for other offending.

Glasgow falsely gave the name of her sister and her sister’s birth date to the officer. The officer did an immediate photo check on his police phone but, because Glasgow resembled her sister and the date of birth matched, she was permitted to leave.

About five days later the police executed a search warrant at Walker’s home. They found methamphetamine, pipes for smoking meth, cannabis bud material, $3180 in cash, and the taser.

Ultimately, Glasgow was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison by Judge Gordon Matenga.

Her counsel in court, Amin Osama, said her life had been “filled with deprivation” including being placed into state care at a young age. This had led to her taking drugs and other offending had followed.

Walker, meanwhile, was jailed for five years and five months.

His counsel, Kerry Tustin, told the court that addiction was also a long-standing feature in his life, however he was “an intelligent man who speaks well” who had held down numerous jobs, including driving trucks.