Appeal after driver is stabbed in stomach

POLICE are appealing for information after a 27-year-old man was stabbed in Glodwick.

The victim was knifed after an row in Mansfield Road when two thugs smashed a rear passenger window of the BMW he was in with his friends.

When the driver got out of the car to remonstrate, he was stabbed in the stomach.

He managed to escape by running off towards Abbeyhills Road and was later admitted to the Royal Oldham Hospital where he had a section of his bowel removed.

Police want anyone who knows anything about the incident, which happened on December 12, to come forward. The man with the knife was white, in his late 20s, about 5ft 11in tall and of slim build. He had brown hair, a fresh cut to his cheek and wore a blue hooded jumper with a red and white logo.

His accomplice was also white, between 18 and 19-years-old, about 5ft 5in tall, also of slim build, with short ginger hair .

Det Con Tim Hegarty, of Oldham CID, said: “I would like to reassure residents in the community that stabbings are extremely rare and it is being treated as an isolated incident. That does not detract from the seriousness of the crime.”

Anyone with information should call 0161-856 8951 or Crimestoppers on 0800-555 111.