Man charged after stabbing in Newcastle town centre

Police were called to High Street earlier this month

Author: Dan DaviesPublished 15th Nov 2021

A man has been charged after a man was stabbed in Newcastle town centre earlier this month.

Police were called at 10.40pm on 7 November to reports that a man had been stabbed on High Street, Newcastle, near to Barclays Bank.

The man, in his 30s, was taken to the Royal Stoke University Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Patrick James Jamieson, 22, of Basford Park Road, Newcastle, has been charged with threatening a person with a blade/sharply pointed article in a public place.

He appeared before magistrates at the North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Thursday (11 November) and was remanded into custody.

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