Detectives investigating an alleged serious assault in Bournemouth are renewing their appeal for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward \u2013 with one man being arrested.<\/p>\n
At 9.52pm on Thursday 30 June 2022, Dorset Police received a report that a 67-year-old local man had been seriously assaulted by another man in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. The victim fell to the ground and was knocked unconscious.<\/p>\n
Officers and the ambulance service attended and the victim was taken to hospital, where he remains with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
It was reported that the alleged offender also assaulted another man, who sustained cuts and bruising. A woman, who tried to intervene was also pushed to the ground by the suspect, who then left the scene on an electric scooter.<\/p>\n
Following enquiries, a 31-year-old man from Bournemouth has been arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in custody.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Neil Third, of Dorset Police, said: \u201cOur investigation has very much progressed and is now being conducted by the Major Crime Investigation Team.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though an arrest has been made, I would like to renew our appeal for any witnesses to the incident who have not yet spoken with police to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now aware that a man and a woman with a small child were in the area at the time and I would very much like to speak to them as they may have important information that could assist us.\u201d<\/p>\n
There continues to be an increased police presence in the area and anyone who has concerns is encouraged to contact officers from the local neighbourhood policing team.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk\/contact, via email 101@dorset.pnn.police.uk or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55220104969. Alternatively, independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously online at Crimestoppers-uk.org or by calling Freephone 0800 555 111.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,145],"class_list":["post-52112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bournemouth","tag-dorset-police","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}