{"id":48358,"date":"2023-09-04T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48358"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:24:26","slug":"man-in-his-60s-knocked-unconscious-in-wimborne-town-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/09\/man-in-his-60s-knocked-unconscious-in-wimborne-town-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 60s knocked unconscious in Wimborne town centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s was taken to hospital after being knocked unconscious in Wimborne.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reported incident happened shortly after 1am on Sunday 3 September 2023 in Crown Mead near to Wimborne Library.<\/p>\n<p>Police are on the lookout for the suspect who is described as white, aged in his late 20s, between six feet two and six feet four inches tall with a beard.<\/p>\n<p>Police Constable Caroline Orchard, of Dorset Police, said: \u201cThankfully, the victim did not sustain any serious injuries in this unprovoked assault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing to anyone who was in the area and witnessed what happened to please come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, I am keen to speak to a blonde woman who was in the vicinity and may have important information to help my enquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55230139399. 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":"<p>A man in his 60s was taken to hospital after being knocked unconscious in Wimborne at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3768,"featured_media":48360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[53,207],"class_list":["post-48358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wimborne","tag-dorset-police","tag-wimborne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48362,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions\/48362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}