{"id":48554,"date":"2023-11-03T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48554"},"modified":"2023-11-03T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:19:33","slug":"police-launch-appeal-for-information-following-verwood-flameburst-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/11\/police-launch-appeal-for-information-following-verwood-flameburst-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch appeal for information following Verwood Flameburst attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photo has been issued by Dorset Police showing the group of young males wanted in connection with an assault at Flameburst last week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is hoped anyone who recognises the boys in the image will contact Police with more information.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/10\/flameburst-organisers-taken-to-hospital-after-reported-attack-at-event\/\">reported<\/a> that a group of male young people attempted to gain entry to Flameburst while the event was closing on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>A male volunteer \u2013 aged in his 70s \u2013 refused them entry and was subsequently assaulted by the group, causing him to fall to the floor. A second man attempted to help the victim, but was punched to the side of the head.<\/p>\n<p>Both men sustained injuries that are not believed to be serious and attended hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full video of the attack sent to VerwoodToday by the event organisers. Viewer discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-48554-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/396484069_6909424939142590_4267949800637490789_n.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/396484069_6909424939142590_4267949800637490789_n.mp4\">https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/396484069_6909424939142590_4267949800637490789_n.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Police Constable Rhianna Sly, of East Dorset police, said: \u201cThe violence demonstrated during this incident is completely unacceptable and we are doing all we can to support the victims and identify those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries are continuing and I would urge anyone who was at the event and saw what happened to please come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have obtained a CCTV image of the suspects and while it is of very low quality, I would like to issue it in the hope that it may jog someone\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I am appealing to anyone within the vicinity who may have captured the group on CCTV footage and may be able to assist my enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local neighbourhood policing team is fully aware and can be approached by anyone with any information or concerns.\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 55230171448. Alternatively, independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously online at Crimestoppers-uk.org or by calling Freephone 0800 555 111.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/371545361_306541622154447_444240484545388164_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/371545361_306541622154447_444240484545388164_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/371545361_306541622154447_444240484545388164_n.jpg 768w, https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/371545361_306541622154447_444240484545388164_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo has been issued by Dorset Police showing the group of young males wanted in connection with an assault at Flameburst last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-48554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-flameburst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48554"}],"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=48554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48561,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48554\/revisions\/48561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}