Man suffers life-threatening stab wounds after Highwoods neighbour dispute

1:41pm Tuesday 25th September 2012 in News

Four people have been arrested following a stabbing in Colchester.

Police were called to a flat in Tynedale Square, Highwoods, at 9.30pm last night following reports of a disturbance.

They found a man with stab wounds, who was taken to Colchester General Hospital where he was treated for life-threatening injuries.

They arrested three men, aged 40, 37, and 22, and one woman, aged 28, on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.

They are currently in custody.

A police spokesman said there had been a neighbour dispute.

Comments(24)

Hampton23 says...
2:00pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Stabbings,Shootings.
.... in Colchester
i,m so in shock!!! some things seriously gone wrong in my former home town of the 90,s never heard a peep except for a few squaddie fights at the Hippodrome...ahhh those heady days of old when you ended up with nothing more serious than a fat lip and a lost shoe.Hope the chap is ok and the accused get charged with attempted murder not gbh????

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Hampton23 says...
2:03pm Tue 25 Sep 12

(something's)

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Smouldering Ewok says...
2:04pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Oh no!, not yet another knife incident.
Please, please stop this terrible trend and quit stabbing each other.

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SOMETHING2SAY says...
2:37pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Hampton23...go get a job as a proof reader !!..Whats with my hometown of Colchester of late..??...Have residents from Clacton moved in ??

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N.T.Franklin says...
2:53pm Tue 25 Sep 12

2012 end of the world!

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Hampton23 says...
2:56pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Ahhh there's always one who likes to detract from the article,Something 2say..Colchester was my hometown,born there ,grew up there and became a man there, all in a relatively safe environment.Except now there seems to be a knife culture going around.Something2say my a**e.

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SOMETHING2SAY says...
3:15pm Tue 25 Sep 12

hampton...something2
say...deffo...you bet...Colly born /raised too....now...who is detracting from the issue....i just state...that Clacton is getting worse...now Colly !

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SOMETHING2SAY says...
3:15pm Tue 25 Sep 12

hampton...something2
say...deffo...you bet...Colly born /raised too....now...who is detracting from the issue....i just state...that Clacton is getting worse...now Colly !

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danny2012 says...
3:27pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Knife is only a big city or gang problem, sadly folks that comment is not true and I know as I run a anti-knife group on FB called ANTI-KNIFE UK and do daily updates from across the uk. How long must we continue to have a goverment and justice system that goes soft on street crime. We need to realise that incidents like this can happen anywhere in the UK and we should all be aware of it,not wait for it too effect somebody or somewhere we know.WAKE UP KNIFE CRIME IS GETTING WORSE RATHER THEN BETTER.

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joesamsonit@yahoo.co.uk says...
3:37pm Tue 25 Sep 12

danny2012 wrote:
Knife is only a big city or gang problem, sadly folks that comment is not true and I know as I run a anti-knife group on FB called ANTI-KNIFE UK and do daily updates from across the uk. How long must we continue to have a goverment and justice system that goes soft on street crime. We need to realise that incidents like this can happen anywhere in the UK and we should all be aware of it,not wait for it too effect somebody or somewhere we know.WAKE UP KNIFE CRIME IS GETTING WORSE RATHER THEN BETTER.
I completely agree the punishment for crimes in this country are a joke while us law biding tax payers suffer the consequences, the punishment should fit the crime not the age as well, these little yobs no very well what they are doing.

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FormerColchesterGirl says...
4:53pm Tue 25 Sep 12

The more I read about Colchester and Clacton lately, the happier I am I moved my family to Suffolk. It's not a good sign when the "posher side" of Highwoods (as they like to be seen as being the other side of the road from Chinook) gets things like this. Not good at all.

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joesamsonit@yahoo.co.uk says...
5:00pm Tue 25 Sep 12

LOL Suffolk , change gear lorry driver change gear kill a ,,,, no its not any better there is it

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FairPerson says...
6:20pm Tue 25 Sep 12

God this is awful! I actually want to move my family from here but where Is safe nowadays?

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Soldier252 says...
6:53pm Tue 25 Sep 12

To be honest I think you should get the soldiers from Merville barracks! To team up with Essex police an go on patrol! Not the military police other regiments with in Merville barracks, and to carry weapons they will sort this town out! If people see soldiers on the streets they will think twice before committing a crime! Who agrees

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Im_Like_HELLO says...
7:07pm Tue 25 Sep 12

I seriously think the water in this area must be tested for there is little else to explain the behaviour of grown men (and women)

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ShallowRemarks says...
8:08pm Tue 25 Sep 12

FormerColchesterGirl wrote:
The more I read about Colchester and Clacton lately, the happier I am I moved my family to Suffolk. It's not a good sign when the "posher side" of Highwoods (as they like to be seen as being the other side of the road from Chinook) gets things like this. Not good at all.
Suffolk is not without problems, the Suffolk Strangler for instant, mustn't forget about that.

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Hampton23 says...
8:39pm Tue 25 Sep 12

Yeah agreed Suffolk, Essex most of the uk in fact have all got a huge problem with knife culture. But the same underlying factors are still there,the punishment for carrying or using knives is not much of a deterent, ie being charged with gbh!! It should be attempted murder end of story.it's not just the kids,grown men are at it as well!!

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danny2012 says...
1:04pm Wed 26 Sep 12

I have read through the comments and what we see is people agreeing that there is a knife problem, but instead of saying lets try and do something,they are saying .....oh i want to move away or i have moved away. Sad to say Knife crime is now UK problem and maybe this latest attack has made you see that even quiet villages are being effected. Sadly a young teenager was stabbed in Colchester in 2005 and was killed, but did his mother move away ....NO she started campaigning and doing stuff to bring awareness to knife crime and since then has done a lot of good work.....so just imagine what you all could do if you stood up to this knife crime instead of running away.
Checkout ANTI-KNIFE UK on FB and see how serious knife crime is across the UK.

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ShallowRemarks says...
5:46pm Wed 26 Sep 12

danny2012 wrote:
I have read through the comments and what we see is people agreeing that there is a knife problem, but instead of saying lets try and do something,they are saying .....oh i want to move away or i have moved away. Sad to say Knife crime is now UK problem and maybe this latest attack has made you see that even quiet villages are being effected. Sadly a young teenager was stabbed in Colchester in 2005 and was killed, but did his mother move away ....NO she started campaigning and doing stuff to bring awareness to knife crime and since then has done a lot of good work.....so just imagine what you all could do if you stood up to this knife crime instead of running away.
Checkout ANTI-KNIFE UK on FB and see how serious knife crime is across the UK.
Very well put, everyone should know this is all of our problem it doesn't matter where you live.

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GreensteadResident says...
5:56pm Wed 26 Sep 12

What was the cause of this alleged neighbour dispute that led to this alleged knife crime?

The printed version of the Gazette doesn't specify the reasons.

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RetiredVal says...
8:37pm Wed 26 Sep 12

I agree Soldier252.

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ShallowRemarks says...
6:49am Thu 27 Sep 12

There will always be murderers and those who inflict serious harm on one another in this country, the same as there will always be terrorist's in Afghanistan.

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GreensteadResident says...
8:35am Thu 27 Sep 12

Was it anything to do with drug dealing and the playing of loud music?

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joesamsonit@yahoo.co.uk says...
8:30am Sun 30 Sep 12

its getting bad round hear

I can see from my window that the police have the road blocked outside the warwick arms and bingo hall in clacton i went down and all they will say is it was a scuffle that got out of hand

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