{"id":234091,"date":"2026-07-02T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:27:15","slug":"man-in-court-after-fight-shut-parts-of-reading-town-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234091\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in court after fight shut parts of Reading town centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has appeared in court after two men were stabbed in a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Valley Police (TVP) said officers were called to Castle Street at about 22:50 BST on Tuesday. Part of Castle Street and an area of Hosier Street were taped off until Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Stevens, 29, of Caversham Road, Reading, was charged on Wednesday with two counts of Section 18 grievous bodily harm or wounding with intent and one count of possessing a knife in a public place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He appeared at Reading Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday and was remanded in custody ahead of a hearing at Reading Crown Court on 3 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 55-year-old man, from Reading, arrested on suspicion of Section 18 grievous bodily harm or wounding with intent remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 52-year-old man, also from Reading, who was arrested on Wednesday has been released on bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has appeared in court after two men were stabbed in a fight. Thames Valley Police (TVP)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-234091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}