Thursday 21 August 2008

Two more dead and five injured in weekend of knife crime

Britain suffered another bloody weekend of knife crime, which left two dead and five more injured.

Three of the attacks were in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where 30-year-old Paul Gilligan, from Little Hulton, died after he was stabbed in the chest and shoulder on Saturday night.

A 19-year-old youth has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

On Friday, a 19-year-old was stabbed in the neck as he sat in his car in Bolton.

He was stable in hospital yesterday.

Earlier on Friday a 24-year-old man was stabbed in the same road after he approached by a man to ask for a cigarette.

There was a row and he was stabbed in the side.

A murder investigation was also under way in Bristol, where a man was stabbed to death during a street disturbance.

He was named by locals as 43-year-old father of four Johnny Derrick, who suffered knife wounds to the head and chest in the Withywood area of the city.

He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition where doctors fought to save him, but he died yesterday morning. Police said he died after a "domestic" dispute.

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