Sixty-year-old man left with head injuries after morning attack (From Warrington Guardian)
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Sixty-year-old man left with head injuries after morning attack
4:43pm Tuesday 14th February 2012 in News
A 60-YEAR-OLD man is in hospital with head injuries after being attacked in Orford this morning.
The victim was walking to work at 6.30am on South Avenue when a car drove past him.
It stopped and a man got out and walked down West Avenue before the car continued to Hale Street.
As the victim got to the junction with West Avenue he heard footsteps behind him.
The man who had left the car was running towards him and then hit him around the head with an unknown object.
He then got back in the car which drove off towards Orford Lane.
The victim suffered two cuts to his head and is being kept in at Warrington Hospital.
DC Tracey Short said: "This was a serious assault on a member of the public. The victim lost a substantial amount of blood as a result of the attack.”
The attacker is described as a white man, around 6ft tall and wore dark clothing.
Police said there was no description of the vehicle.
Anyone with any information can call police on 101.
Comments(27)
jdow
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5:45pm Tue 14 Feb 12
Hope the man is ok.
Chip Hazard
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9:16pm Tue 14 Feb 12
biginthesticks
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12:20am Wed 15 Feb 12
chunkymunky
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12:06pm Wed 15 Feb 12
johnyboy01
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5:03pm Wed 15 Feb 12
jmclean
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6:50pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Cheap Mower
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9:15pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Cheap Mower
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9:16pm Wed 15 Feb 12
mickym
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9:40pm Wed 15 Feb 12
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
wirelady
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9:49pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Chip Hazard
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9:55pm Wed 15 Feb 12
It's not impossible this was a random attack but based on the facts given it seems unlikely. I'm also not saying he deserved a beating.
It's simply not logical for this assault to have taken place at the given time without the attacker(s) having a reason of any quantity.
chumhill
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12:27am Thu 16 Feb 12
Chip Hazard wrote:Think you need to live in the real world and realise that people do get attacked for nothing by mindless thugs.
I'm ashamed of nothing regarding my previous comment. I said I was speculating.
It's not impossible this was a random attack but based on the facts given it seems unlikely. I'm also not saying he deserved a beating.
It's simply not logical for this assault to have taken place at the given time without the attacker(s) having a reason of any quantity.
As for others opinion of orford i think your need to also understand that there are scum everywhere even in the most upper class parts of the town. You really need to think before making comments like that as there are a lot of decent people who live in orford.
Kendo82
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8:31am Thu 16 Feb 12
I agree with Chip
Regarding the comments about Orford, yes there are decent ppl that live there, there are decent and non-decent ppl everywhere, but there is and always has been a higher concentration of the non decent in orford, longford, dallam, bewsey, basically that side of town. It has always been this way. Look at the house prices/style/crime rates/ its impossible to deny, and I was an orforder for 5 years, now I am moving out of warrington all together because of the non-decents from these places have infected the whole town with their vile dialect and attitudes.
SickAndTired2
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8:42am Thu 16 Feb 12
Chip Hazard
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8:58am Thu 16 Feb 12
Source: Oxford Dictionary
speculate
Pronunciation: /ˈspɛkjʊleɪt/
verb
1 form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
chunkymunky
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9:59am Thu 16 Feb 12
Mickym just because you ‘know’ someone doesn’t mean you know all of their business, there in and outs of complexes lives and relationships with others, hence why I am not ‘ashamed’ for my comments and speculation, if anything you should be ashamed for being nothing but ignorant to facts that are out there and evidence instead of thinking your in a corrie plot line!!
And on the Orford debate, I recently moved from what would be regarded as a ‘nice part’ of Warrington to orford last year and I can assure you it was a great move! My life is much quieter and nicer living where I do now!!
chunkymunky
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10:00am Thu 16 Feb 12
chumhill wrote:yes they do, but come on the circumstances and usually the event are very different than to whats been reported above!!
Chip Hazard wrote: I'm ashamed of nothing regarding my previous comment. I said I was speculating. It's not impossible this was a random attack but based on the facts given it seems unlikely. I'm also not saying he deserved a beating. It's simply not logical for this assault to have taken place at the given time without the attacker(s) having a reason of any quantity.Think you need to live in the real world and realise that people do get attacked for nothing by mindless thugs. As for others opinion of orford i think your need to also understand that there are scum everywhere even in the most upper class parts of the town. You really need to think before making comments like that as there are a lot of decent people who live in orford.
LASPEAKO
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10:56am Thu 16 Feb 12
You missed out the beautiful WESTY!
SickAndTired2
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11:44am Thu 16 Feb 12
chunkymunky wrote:This is quite unbelievable..
I wont be apologising for my comment neither!! Just think about it, why would anyone get out of a car, walk, smack someone then get back in further up the road?? Its not your regular occurrence of random acts of violence, there seems to be no motive, there was no mugging or demands for anything, it doesn’t stack up!!
Mickym just because you ‘know’ someone doesn’t mean you know all of their business, there in and outs of complexes lives and relationships with others, hence why I am not ‘ashamed’ for my comments and speculation, if anything you should be ashamed for being nothing but ignorant to facts that are out there and evidence instead of thinking your in a corrie plot line!!
And on the Orford debate, I recently moved from what would be regarded as a ‘nice part’ of Warrington to orford last year and I can assure you it was a great move! My life is much quieter and nicer living where I do now!!
You've convinced yourself that there is more to this than meets the eye without any evidence whatsoever, yet when confronted by someone who claims to know the victim and claims they are blameless you totally dismiss them out of hand by claiming they can't know all their business, when you know nothing at all..
You must live in a fantasy land. Read back through the stories we've had in recent months... There have been so many stories of men getting their jaws smashed open on the way home from a night out by apparent strangers, yet here you are claiming that this one particular attack has some ulterior motive..
Give your head a shake.
SickAndTired2
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11:45am Thu 16 Feb 12
Chip Hazard wrote:I rest my case. Unless you can substantiate these claims with "firm evidence".
Sorry SickAndTired2 but you are wrong!
Source: Oxford Dictionary
speculate
Pronunciation: /ˈspɛkjʊleɪt/
verb
1 form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
Chip Hazard
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12:35pm Thu 16 Feb 12
Basically your opinion (and everyone else) is also speculation.
There is no firm evidence in the story to suggest this attack was random or not. I was simply speculating based on logic, regardless of how your logic or reasoning differs based on the written word in the article.
ladyluck30
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1:01pm Thu 16 Feb 12
chunkymunky
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1:32pm Thu 16 Feb 12
If anyone needs a shake its your blinkered viewing of situation!!
I have no ‘convinced myself’ of anything, merely pointing out this doesn’t sit right, like the rest of you who have assumed it does fit the usual bill!! I suggest you get over yourself instead of the usual ‘I know best and you will all agree’ attitude you usual throw round here!!!
the_watcher
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9:03pm Thu 16 Feb 12
wirelady wrote:i know there are alot of decent folk in orford but unfortunately for them there are a great deal of not so decent ones too, and i can't help thinking that the police have some controll over the coucil housing there, keeping all the junkies, thugs, burglars, benefit cheats and general scum of the earth there so they can keep an eye on them and know where to look when they re-offend.
Hope the man has a speedy recovery. I live in orford and I am proud of it, I have brought my children up in a loving home and have taught them how to treat people with respect. I find it quite sad that people think that people who live in orford are nothing but a bunch of lowlifes or inbreds! Cheapmower dont tar us all with the same brush.
Watson10
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12:12am Sat 18 Feb 12
dizzydd
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10:16pm Sun 19 Feb 12
Sheila Teasdale says...
4:57pm Tue 14 Feb 12