03-04-2025
Cambridge petrol station stabbing: Man given hospital order
A 20-year-old man who stabbed a man in the back at a petrol station has been given a hospital Hazell, from Cambridge, attacked the man, in his 40s, outside a BP petrol station on Cherry Hinton Road in the city, in the early hours of 5 April victim was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital and treated for a stab wound to the lower back and multiple internal was given the order under section 37 of the Mental Health Act at the city's crown court on Wednesday.
Hazell ran away from the scene and was later identified after a public CCTV admitted causing grievous bodily harm at a previous hearing at the same additional section 41 restriction on Hazell's hospital order means he can only be discharged from hospital if the justice secretary Con Alex Galan-Tarachiu from Cambridgeshire Police said: "This was a completely unprovoked attack which initially left the victim in a critical condition."I hope the sentence provides some reassurance to the victim."
Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
