Man charged with attempted murder after Perton stabbing
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing in a South Staffordshire village.
Violence flared in Perton last month when a 27-year-old man was stabbed near to the entrance of Sainsbury's car park.
Police said the stab victim received puncture wounds to his body and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Liam Phipps, aged 20 and of High Street in Tettenhall, was last night charged with attempted murder and will appear at Cannock Magistrates' Court today.
Police believe the stabbing was linked to an earlier incident on the same night, May 24, when a second man, also 27, was punched in the face and received minor injuries during an assault at the Pear and Partridge pub on The Parkway.
Officers last week charged Kamal Lodge, 23, with possessing a knife or pointed article in a public place.
Three more people – a 24-year-old Pattingham woman, a 21-year-old man from Wolverhampton and a 31-year-old woman from Wednesbury – have previously been arrested and bailed on suspicion of assisting an offender.
