{"id":408881,"date":"2026-01-12T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:49:14","slug":"two-more-boys-held-after-teen-injured-in-rugby-league-match-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408881\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more boys held after teen injured in rugby league match fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested after another teenager was badly hurt in what police described as a &#8220;large fight&#8221; following a rugby league match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 17-year-old boy suffered a serious head injury in Dallam Lane, Warrington, just before 21:30 GMT on Friday, after Warrington Wolves hosted Widnes Vikings in a pre-season friendly at the Halliwell Jones Stadium. The boy remains in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 17-year-old boy, from Widnes, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2x5nk1099o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">had already been arrested on suspicion of assault.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Cheshire Police said the two younger teenage boys, also from Widnes, were also arrested on suspicion of the same offence &#8211; but that all three had now been released on bail pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ch Insp Robert McLoughlin, of Warrington Local Policing Unit, said: &#8220;Rugby League is a big part of the Warrington and Widnes culture, and the vast majority of fans attend to support their team and their community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;However, in this instance, a select few chose to engage in behaviour which is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I hope these arrests reassure residents that we are doing all we can to hold those involved accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Officers are appealing for information and witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested after another teenager was badly hurt in what police described as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-408881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}