Boy, 15, arrested as woman critical after being stabbed outside home in 'fight'
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a woman was left in a "critical condition" when she was stabbed outside her home.
Police rushed to a property in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, yesterday evening at 6.30pm following reports of a fight between a woman and a youth.
But when officers reached the scene of the incident, along with local ambulance services, they found the woman, in her 20s, had suffered serious injuries.
An air ambulance was also in attendance and medics rushed her to hospital but she remains in a “critical condition”.
The teenager was subsequently arrested and remains in police custody.
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Detective Inspector Jim Heggs said: “The investigation is very much in its early stages and officers are continuing to speak to residents in the area where the incident occurred.
The woman was stabbed after a fight outside her home police said (stock image) (Getty Images)“However, I would ask anyone who saw what happened or has information that could help to come forward. I would particularly urge anyone with mobile phone, doorbell or dashcam footage to contact police.
“Anything you can provide, no matter how insignificant you think it is, could assist us.”
You can pass on information by visiting https://www.leics.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/ and quoting reference 23*343309.
Alternatively call 101.
A spokesperson for East Midlands Ambulance Service told the Mirror: "We received a call at 6.32pm yesterday, Monday 5 June to a private address in Melton Mowbray.
"The caller reported a medical emergency. We sent a paramedic in an ambulance car, a crewed ambulance, a doctor and the air ambulance was also in attendance. We transported one patient to Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham via land ambulance."
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