A man has been charged with stabbing someone in Trafalgar Street, Brighton, and remanded in custody to await trial.
Joel Elliott, 33, of Springfield Road, Brighton, appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Tuesday 24 October).
The magistrates remanded him in custody and said that his next court appearance would be at the crown court next month.
Police said that Elliott was brought to court to face charges of assault causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), robbery and having a knife.
He was arrested over an incident in the early hours of Monday 9 October and charged with stabbing a man called Mason King.
Elliott was also charged with threatening a woman with a knife. He was accused of strangling her and assaulting her causing her actual bodily harm (ABH) in Winchelsea earlier this month.
He was also charged with raping a woman in Brighton on Sunday (22 October).
Sussex Police said that Mr King had reported being approached at around 3.30am as he walked along Trafalgar Street. He suffered several stab wounds in an attempted robbery.
Sussex Police said: “Members of the public provided crucial care until emergency services arrived at the scene.
“From his hospital bed, the victim expressed his thanks to those who assisted him following the attack.”
Detective Inspector Donna Ward said: “After a thorough investigation by a team of officers and staff, we have managed to charge and remand a suspect.
“Members of the public should be able to walk the streets at night without the fear of violence and we are dedicated to ensuring that those who try to infringe upon this right face consequences.
“We thank the members of the public who have assisted with our inquiries, as well as those who helped the victim in his most vulnerable moments.”
Sussex Police added: “If you have any further information relating to the case, you can report it to us via our online form, or by calling 101, quoting reference: 162 of 09/10.”
The police should start doing stop and search before we start seeing a London level knife crime epidemic. Non-criminals won’t mind this.
You are wrong on every level…
Stop and Search does not work for this type of crime ie opportunistic
Under S43 of Terrorism Act 2000 a constable has the power to stop and search a person who they reasonably suspect to be a terrorist, to discover whether they have in their possession anything which may constitute evidence that they are a terrorist.
To extend the Police powers to S and S Re: opportunistic criminals is /has never been on the Police radar for the extension of their already considerable powers.
Stop being stupid.
Sarah’s nuclear response is quite typical. Data indicates that stop-and-search measures are not notably effective in reducing crime. While there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of stop and search as an investigatory tool, the available data does suggest a stronger case for its efficacy in this capacity.
Nonetheless, there are some severe potential adverse consequences, such as the disproportionate targeting of BAME individuals and the resulting mistrust in the police that can arise from these practices.
And it’s predominantly younger BAME people that get stopped.
And if you’re stopped repeatedly you are soon going to start not trusting the police.
Oh so the athlete and her husband who were continually stopped and searched by the Met Police shouldn’t object because they were innocent?
You’d soon start to object if you were regularly stopped.