{"id":688274,"date":"2026-01-11T05:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:34:17","slug":"police-appeal-for-information-as-four-arrested-following-disturbance-in-woodley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688274\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for information as four arrested following disturbance in Woodley"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man suffered serious injuries in the assault at his home<\/p>\n

18:37, 09 Jan 2026Updated 12:10, 10 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

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Woodley Precinct. (Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police are appealing for information following a disturbance in Woodley that saw a man suffer serious injuries in an assault at his home.<\/p>\n

The force said that officers responded to reports of a disturbance at an address in the Woodley Precinct area.<\/p>\n

They believe several men ‘broke into a property’, .causing ‘significant damage’ before fleeing.<\/p>\n

While conducting enquiries at this address, officers were alerted to another incident at another nearby property, in which a man was assaulted in his home by two men.<\/p>\n

The man suffered suffered serious injuries in this incident, which are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n

Four people, aged 19, 44, 45 and 48, have since been arrested on suspicion of Section 18 assault and remain in custody for questioning<\/p>\n

Enquiries are ongoing as the two cases are being treated as linked, but were believed to be targeted with no wider threat to the community.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Michael Dever, from GMP\u2019s Stockport<\/a> district, said: \u201cThis shocking incident is something which will naturally be a cause for concern for local residents, I want to reassure them that we believe these incidents are isolated and do not pose a threat to the wider community.<\/p>\n

“Two men have been injured as a result and we have now arrested four people in relation to both matters.<\/p>\n

“Our officers and staff continue to investigate the circumstances and officers will be remaining in the area as this is carried out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would urge anyone with information to get in touch with us, either directly or anonymously.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you have information, you can contact police via 101 or their live chat at gmp.police.uk<\/a>, quoting log 1557 of 8 January 2026.<\/p>\n

You can also contact the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suffered serious injuries in the assault at his home 18:37, 09 Jan 2026Updated 12:10, 10 Jan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,187,2465,1288,16,15,136096],"class_list":{"0":"post-688274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greater-manchester-police","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-stockport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-woodley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115874841557419847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688274","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=688274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}