A 49-year-old man has been charged with assault occasioning ABH after a 51-year-old man was stabbed at an address Lowestoft.

Alan Findlay, of Marine Parade, was arrested at the property shortly after the incident and has been detained in custody overnight pending an appearance this morning at Lowestoft Magistrates Court.

The 51-year-old sustained two puncture marks and cuts to his back and a cut above his eye in the incident in Walton Road in the early hours of yesterday. He received treatment at the James Paget hospital before being discharged yesterday morning.