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Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone, of Gloucestershire Police, reads a statement to reporters outside Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire after a male teacher was stabbed at the secondary school. A teenager has been arrested. Picture date: Monday July 10, 2023. Picture date: Monday July 10, 2023.
A TEENAGE boy was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder today after a male teacher at a secondary school in Gloucestershire was stabbed and rushed to hospital.
The staff member was reported to be in a stable condition at the time this article was published, following the alleged attack in a corridor at Tewkesbury Academy state school.
The boy was still in custody by early evening after he was arrested by firearms officers five miles away in Stoke Orchard at 11am, almost two hours after armed officers were first called out.
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