Arrest in connection with cemetery stabbing

A man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing at a Peterborough city centre cemetery last week.

We were called at 2.36pm on Wednesday (24 April) by the ambulance service reporting a man had been stabbed in Broadway cemetery.

Oor officers attended and a man in his 30s was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threating injuries.

A 32-year-old man from Peterborough was arrested yesterday afternoon (Sunday) on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), being in possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, committing a public order offence and theft from a shop.

He remains in custody at Parkside Police Station in Cambridge.

Anyone with information about the incident should report online and quote incident 277 of 24 April.