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17-year-old charged with attempted murder after stabbing
A 17-year-old boy has been charged after a stabbing in Kingswood on Friday night.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged overnight with attempted murder and being in possession of an offensive weapon.
He has been remanded into police custody and will appear at Bristol Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The charge relates to a serious assault in which the victim walked into a pub on Two Mile Hill Road with a knife-like wound in his back.
Emergency services were called at 9:50pm.
The victim has since been discharged from hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening or life changing.
Two other people were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. They have been released on police bail.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) mid-year population estimates 2023, South Gloucestershire’s young people aged 0 to 19 accounted for a 4.3 per cent increase in the number of recorded crimes in 2023/24.
Over 75 per cent of the South Gloucestershire area saw increases in the levels of violence.
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