{"id":48468,"date":"2023-10-24T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48468"},"modified":"2023-10-26T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:36:39","slug":"boy-arrested-after-group-knife-attack-on-a-teenager-reported-in-verwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/10\/boy-arrested-after-group-knife-attack-on-a-teenager-reported-in-verwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy arrested after group knife attack on a teenager reported in Verwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A knife attack and robbery on a 15-year-old boy by a group of four teenage boys has been reported in Verwood.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place between 2pm and 2.30pm on Monday 23 October 2023 in the forest behind Morrisons in Chiltern Drive. <\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the offenders stole the victim\u2019s coat, jumper and jewellery. One of the boys was reportedly in possession of a knife.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries to his face and shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy from Verwood \u2013 who is known to the victim \u2013 has been arrested on suspicion of robbery. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Dave Barnes, of Dorset County CID, said: \u201cAn investigation is underway into this incident and we are supporting the victim as our enquiries continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing to anyone who was in the area and saw what happened to please come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I am keen to hear from anyone with any information that may assist our investigation.\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 55230168398. 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 knife attack and robbery on a 15-year-old boy by a group of four teenage boys has been reported in Verwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-48468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-verwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48468"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48471,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48468\/revisions\/48471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}