{"id":171775,"date":"2025-06-10T02:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171775\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T02:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:10:23","slug":"woman-and-man-punched-and-kicked-in-brutal-midnight-attack-in-easton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171775\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and man punched and kicked in brutal midnight attack in Easton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two attackers are at large and a description has been issued<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_AD_09-06-2025_lansdownroad_03jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.(Image: Paul Gillis \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A woman and a man were repeatedly punched and kicked in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/easton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Easton<\/a> in the early hours of this morning (Monday, June 9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They were attacked by two men who remain at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Shortly after midnight, police were notified of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">assault<\/a> that took place in Lansdown Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers attended, alongside the ambulance service, and report being at the scene within less than five minutes of the call being made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The victims were a woman in her 50s and a man in his 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They were attacked by two men who repeatedly punched and kicked them before they left the area in a silver Ford Puma car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The car was later found nearby and seized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_AD_09-06-2025_lansdownroadjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.(Image: Paul Gillis \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Both victims were taken to hospital for injuries that are neither believed to be life-threatening nor life-changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Avon and Somerset Police put up a cordon until midday when it was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers have checked CCTV footage whilst investigators attended the crime scene this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Work to identify the two men is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One of the men was wearing a brown jacket and jeans and the other was described as being bald and wearing a white t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_AD_09-06-2025_lansdownroad_02jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police at Lansdown Road in Easton.(Image: Paul Gillis \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: &#8220;Shortly after midnight today we received a report that two people had been assaulted in Lansdown Road in Easton, Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The victims, a woman in her 50s and a man in his 20s, were attacked by two men who repeatedly punched and kicked them before they left the area in a silver Ford Puma car. The car was later found nearby and seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Officers attended, alongside the ambulance service, and were at the scene within less than five minutes of the call being made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Both victims were taken to hospital for injuries that are neither believed to be life-threatening nor life-changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Officers have spoken to people living in the area and checked CCTV footage while crime scene investigators attended this morning. A cordon was in place until midday but has since been removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Work to identify the two men is ongoing. One of the men was wearing a brown jacket and jeans and the other was described as being bald and wearing a white t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Anyone with any information that could help our investigation should call 101 and give the call handler the reference number 5225159734.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two attackers are at large and a description has been issuedPolice at Lansdown Road in Easton.(Image: Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,9999,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-easton","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656642607458779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}