{"id":645688,"date":"2025-12-21T06:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:11:26","slug":"neighbours-wake-to-banging-and-major-police-presence-after-man-stabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645688\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours wake to &#8216;banging&#8217; and major police presence after man &#8216;stabbed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enquiries are ongoing<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_G8m_d6kWQAAxbxk.jpg\" alt=\"Forensics on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, Stockport\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Forensics on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, Stockport(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Residents heard &#8216;clattering&#8217; before seeing police descend after a man was injured in a suspected stabbing in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/stockport\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Stockport<\/a>. Emergency services descended on Belmont Street, in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/heaton-norris\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Heaton Norris<\/a>, in the early hours of Saturday morning (December 20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Witnesses described seeing a large police presence at around 12.30am, with paramedics also on the scene. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> says a man suffered stab wounds &#8211; but the cause of the injury is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He was rushed to hospital with injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening. Forensics investigators were seen on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, later this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers were seen knocking on doors in the neighbourhood as enquiries continue. A Belmont Street resident told the Manchester Evening News she had been woken up by her partner, who heard police attend the scene in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An Athol Street resident added: &#8220;It kept me awake most of the night. There was a lot of banging, clattering, car doors going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_G8m9qvTXQAAL9M6.jpg\" alt=\"Police on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, Stockport\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, Stockport(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A GMP spokesperson said: &#8220;We are investigating how a man came to have stab wounds at a property on Belmont Street, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/stockport\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Stockport<\/a> in the early hours of this morning (Saturday, December 20 2025). He was taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries, which aren\u2019t described as being life threatening or changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We believe the incident to be isolated, but enquiries are ongoing to understand the circumstances.&#8221; GMP has been approached for a further update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enquiries are ongoingForensics on Athol Street, off Belmont Street, Stockport(Image: Manchester Evening News) Residents heard &#8216;clattering&#8217; before seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2625,2465,1288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-heaton-norris","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-stockport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115756079336797953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645688","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=645688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}