Stourbridge knife attacks: Man arrested following stabbings during night of violence
A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after violence flared during a night out in Stourbridge.
Police say a man was assaulted in the town centre and stabbed, before a taxi driver was cut by a passenger with a knife.
The man, from Dudley, was arrested on Sunday, April 2.
The violence was sparked by an altercation between a group of men near to The Arena Nightclub, in Hagley Road, just outside the town centre.
The first incident took place at around 3.30am on Saturday March 4 as a taxi driver pulled up at the BP petrol station in Lye.
A passenger was cut the driver on the hand with a knife.
Police were then called out at around 4.10am to reports of an injured 31-year-old man in an alleyway off St John’s Road in the town centre.
He had been beaten and stabbed after leaving a nightclub at around 3.20am.
He was walking along Hagley Road to get a taxi home when he has saw a group of two women and several men, as he walked past them he was attacked and then pursued into the alley where the assault continued.
Detective Constable Simon Cooper said they were investigating the possibility that the attacks were carried out by the same group.
The 24-year-old has been conditionally bailed while investigations continue.
