{"id":233379,"date":"2025-07-03T00:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233379\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:51:14","slug":"update-after-man-suffered-serious-head-injury-in-fight-at-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233379\/","title":{"rendered":"Update after man suffered &#8216;serious&#8217; head injury in fight at wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s was taken to hospital following the incident at the pub<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Hare-and-Hounds-in-Huyton.jpg\" alt=\"The Hare and Hounds on Cronton Road in Huyton\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Hare and Hounds on Cronton Road in Huyton(Image: Google Maps )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man injured following a serious assault at a pub is now in a stable condition. Merseyside Police has confirmed the man in his 30s, who suffered a head injury during the serious assault at the Hare and Hounds pub in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/huyton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Huyton<\/a> and was previously in a critical condition, is now stable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/merseyside-police\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Merseyside PoliceLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Merseyside Police<\/a> was called to the pub, on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/huyton\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cronton Road in HuytonLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cronton Road in Huyton<\/a>, to reports of the incident at around 7.45pm on Tuesday, June 3. It came after reports of a fight during a funeral function at the pub, with officers arriving to find a man in his 30s with a serious head injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was taken to hospital for assessment. A 47-year-old man from Whiston and a 47-year-old man from Huyton were arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and common assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The two men who were arrested were bailed following questioning, with enquiries continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers remained at the pub the following day to speak to witnesses and gather evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Detective Inspector Jimmy Rotheram said: &#8220;We continue to appeal for any witnesses of the incident as our enquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Your account, images or footage could be vital as we look to establish exactly what happened. We believe that a private function was taking place at the time, and we need to speak to anyone there who has yet to make themselves known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Contact us via @MerpolCC on X, \u2018Merseyside Police Contact Centre\u2019 on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/facebook\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, 101 or via our website: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/ocr\/af\/how-to-report-a-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/ocr\/af\/how-to-report-a-crime\/Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/ocr\/af\/how-to-report-a-crime\/<\/a> with reference 25000456833.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via their website here: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/give-information\/forms\/give-information-anonymously\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/give-information\/forms\/give-information-anonymouslyLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/give-information\/forms\/give-information-anonymously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s was taken to hospital following the incident at the pubThe Hare and Hounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,16552,179,274,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-huyton","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-merseyside-police","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114786565175992627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233379","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=233379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}