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We think it was a stabbing. Chris was driving along London Road with her daughter and granddaughters at about 1620. They wanted to turn left into Coombe Valley Road but there was a police car on the corner with passengers getting out and saying their cheerios. It was blocking the turning and Chris was tempted to give it a bib. When it moved off, it turned up Coombe Valley Road with Chris following.
As Chris turned left into Victoria Street, she and her progeny saw the police car being flagged down by a girl around twenty standing a few yards further up Coombe Valley towards the traffic lights, on the edge of the car park. She was supporting a man in his twenties or thirties who was hunched over holding a jumper to his stomach, with a lot of blood on the jumper and on his hands.
When Chris left the house which she was visiting in Victoria Street about twenty minutes later, there were a couple of ambulances and several police cars at the scene and the road was blocked off.
Chris's daughter and granddaughters are visiting from Blackpool. They arrived on tuesday and this is the second time that they have been down into the town. Yesterday they parked in Somerfield's carpark and witnessed several policemen very forcefully restraining a youth on the ground in Pencester Park, surrounded by other youths shouting and gesticulating. Simultaneously, two security guards were restraining a teenage youth in the entrance to Somerfields, presumably caught shoplifting.
After that, they went to McDonalds and ordered meals. As Chris was carrying the heaped tray back an uncontrollable youngster barged into her scattering her food all over the floor, with no acknowledgement or apology from her parents. They went to sit upstairs. A middle-aged man with a small boy in tow was up there going through the gash bins. The man then went into the gents toilet with the refuse from the bins, leaving the boy sitting at a table. After a few minutes he came out, sat down for a bit, and then disappeared into the Ladies for several minutes. Chris and the family finished their meal and descended the stairs to leave, stepping over a number of teenage boys rolling about fighting on the floor as they made their way to the exit.
They then drove home, pausing only for three very drunk men and a woman staggering down the middle of the road clutching beer glasses. One of the men reeled up to Chris's window and slurred "Sorry about this, its my birthday!"
All sounds like a scene from Hogarth and they are waiting to see what tomorrow will bring!