Overview
- The stabbing, which happened Tuesday at the Finborough Road recreation ground, left a 16-year-old in hospital in a stable condition.
- Officers arrested an 18-year-old and two boys aged 17 and 16 at Stowmarket train station shortly after the attack.
- Tyler Arnold, 18, is charged with causing grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to rob, while the 17-year-old faces the same counts plus cannabis possession and the 16-year-old faces the same counts plus carrying a ‘zombie knife’.
- At a Thursday hearing at Suffolk Magistrates’ Court, all three were given bail with electronic tags, orders not to contact each other, and bans from Stowmarket, with one youth barred from Suffolk except for court appearances.
- Detectives have not recovered the weapon, believed to be a large knife, and are asking residents near Finborough Road, Tavern Street, Iliffe Way, Wilkes Way and Station Road to check gardens and bins and to report anything quoting reference 37/22601/26.