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Double attempted murder charge after stabbing

Elliot Deady
BBC News, Essex
Richard Knights/BBC A police car by a taped off area in Southend, showing a brick wall to the right, a road, with cars parked on it, police in the distance and a row of houses to the left. There are also houses to the right. Several trees and a telegraph pole are in the road, and double yellow lines. Two police officers are to the right.Richard Knights/BBC
Essex Police said a 21-year-old man was due before magistrates in Southend on Monday

A 21-year-old man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after another man was stabbed.

Essex Police said the victim, whose condition was now described as stable, was injured inside an address in Stadium Road, Southend-on-Sea, on Sunday, just before 05:00 GMT.

A woman also suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The defendant, who was due to appear before Southend Magistrates' Court on Monday, was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault by beating, and two counts of intentional strangulation, Essex Police said.

Richard Knights/BBC Two police cars in a residential street. There are a row of houses to the left and a tree to the right. Several police forensic vehicles are outside a house.Richard Knights/BBC
Emergency services were called to the Greyhound Way area of Southend-on-Sea on Sunday morning

Det Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe said she is "confident there is no ongoing threat to the wider public".

She urged anyone with information which could assist the police's inquiries to come forward.

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