{"id":565670,"date":"2026-05-04T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565670\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:16:08","slug":"two-stabbed-in-essex-holiday-park-attack-as-14-year-old-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565670\/","title":{"rendered":"Two stabbed in Essex holiday park attack as 14-year-old arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cops have arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and a 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker<\/p>\n

12:40, 04 May 2026Updated 12:58, 04 May 2026<\/p>\n

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A 14-year-old and a 36-year-old have been arrested(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)<\/p>\n

Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm in connection with a double stabbing <\/a>at an Essex holiday park.<\/p>\n

Officers arrived at St Osyth Holiday Park<\/a> on Beach Road, St Osyth, just after midnight on Monday, May 4, following reports of a disturbance.<\/p>\n

Two people sustained stab wounds <\/a>during the incident, cops said with one victim requiring hospital treatment, but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.<\/p>\n

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and remains in custody.<\/p>\n

A 36-year-old man has also been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker and is still in custody.<\/p>\n

Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n

An Essex Police spokesman said: “Today detectives are continuing to investigate the incident and would like to hear from anyone who has not yet spoken to us who may be a witness.<\/p>\n

“Anyone with information can contact officers at Clacton CID quoting incident 20 of Monday 4 May.<\/p>\n

“You can let us know by submitting a report on our website or by using our online Live Chat service which is available 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n

“Alternatively you can call 101.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops have arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and a 36-year-old man has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,59,57,58,2559,50,288,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-breaking-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-knife-crime","tag-news","tag-police","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}