FOUR men have been arrested and charged in connection with a stabbing incident in Clacton.
Unemployed Johnathan Blaize, 26, from Greenhithe in Kent has been charged with affray and theft, 23-year-old unemployed Jamal Coipel from St Andrews Road, Clacton, 27-year-old unemployed Markel Greenidge from Dunbar Street in London and 28-year-old Damien Dunstan from Grange Road in London have all been charged with affray.
They will be appearing at Colchester Magistrates Court this afternoon.
Police were called after a man in his 20s from London suffered puncture wounds to his buttocks, leg and arm during an altercation at a shop in Old Road, Clacton at about 6.50pm on Wednesday, April 10.
He was taken to hospital but discharged himself some hours later.
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