A local man has been arrested on suspicion of multiple offences following a serious incident yesterday. 

Police were dispatched to a residential address just after 9.30am yesterday, after a call to the RGP’s Control Room stating that a man had been assaulted.

The man’s injuries included bruising to his face, bleeding and suspected broken ribs, which resulted in him being taken to Saint Bernard’s Hospital for treatment.

Following enquiries by detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department, at around 1.30pm a local woman, 32, was arrested on suspicion of Concealing Offences, after she allegedly provided misleading information to officers investigating the incident.

During subsequent enquiries, a residence was searched and officers seized ammunition. 

Just before 7pm, detectives arrested a local man, 33, on a bus in the area of the Frontier, on suspicion of Wounding/Grievous Bodily Harm, Possession of Ammunition without a Certificate and several outstanding warrants of arrest.

The man was then further arrested on suspicion of Dangerous Driving. This was in relation to an incident just after midnight on Monday 12 August 2024, where a speeding local car failed to stop for RGP officers on Devil’s Tower Road.

The car then drove the wrong way around the Sundial Roundabout and the wrong way along Winston Churchill Avenue towards Corral Road – swerving in between oncoming traffic.

Officers called off the chase as it was too dangerous to continue. Video footage of the incident went viral on social media.

An investigation is ongoing.