{"id":598891,"date":"2026-05-23T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:10:08","slug":"police-descend-on-toxteth-after-man-slashed-across-face-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598891\/","title":{"rendered":"Police descend on Toxteth after man slashed across face &#8211; recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Merseyside Police has now confirmed a man was taken to hospital after he was slashed across the face in Toxteth tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services descended on Toxteth on Friday, May 22 after a man in his 20&#8217;s was slashed in the face on Asbridge Street, just off Lodge Lodge, shortly after 6.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The man was taken to hospital, where he is being treated for serious injuries to arm and face, which Merseyside Police described as &#8220;deep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police remain at the scene and Asbridge Street and Cawdor Street are cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An investigation has been launched with CCTV footage, witness enquiries and forensic examinations ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Read the full story here: <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/man-slashed-across-face-toxteth-33999485?int_source=breaking-news\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Man slashed across face in Toxteth as &#8216;trail of blood&#8217; seen on floor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merseyside Police has now confirmed a man was taken to hospital after he was slashed across the face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,7804,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-toxteth","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598891","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=598891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}