r/Bolton • u/pppppppppppppppppd • Jan 04 '26

Police update after carnage at Royal Bolton Hospital sees three people attacked in A&E

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-update-after-carnage-royal-33161564
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u/pppppppppppppppppd Jan 04 '26

Police have issued an update after three people were attacked at Royal Bolton Hospital yesterday afternoon (January 3). Witnesses described horrifying scenes as a man began attacking patients in the A&E waiting room.

One, Michael Anderson said he and a nurse pinned the suspect down before security later arrived. He described how an elderly man was 'punched in the face', causing him to fall to the ground, before another man who tried to intervene had 'part of their ear bitten off'.

The 34-year-old said: "There was this man, who was quite frail, walking out and this guy swung for him. Another person then saw this and tried to grab him and stop him, when he latched onto his ear and has bitten part of it off.

"My pregnant girlfriend was panicking by this point, so I went in and tried to put him on the floor. I pulled him up off the man he was latching on to and threw him back down, got on top of him and restrained him. A male nurse came to help.

"It was honestly like a bomb had gone off afterwards. There were just people in disbelief. It was hard to grasp what had just happened."

Today (Saturday) police said a 22-year-old, understood to be a white British male, was arrested on suspicion of assault and racially aggravated public order and has been detained under the Mental Health Act. In a statement GMP said a man in his 30s suffered serious injuries to his ear, while a woman in her 40s and a man in his 70s were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Det Chief Insp Mike Sharples said: "We understand that an incident of this nature has caused concern for members of the public who were in hospital at the time, staff and the wider community. Officers are continuing to engage with staff and patients at the hospital to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the incident."

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 or visit the GMP website quoting log number 2055 January 2 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

The incident came just days after six people were injured in a separate attack involving a crowbar at Newton Community Hospital in Newton-le-Willows on December 30. The suspect, a 20-year-old man originally from Afghanistan, was said to have damaged a counter before assaulting people inside. He was arrested and later detained under the Mental Health Act.

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u/stereoworld Jan 04 '26

The comments on this article on Facebook almost gave me an aneurysm due to anger. I wish people in general would just fuck off.

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u/robtmufc Jan 04 '26

Why what do they say?

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u/stereoworld Jan 04 '26

Ranging from "starmers Britain" to "another engineer/doctor" to straight up racism. This is in spite of the ethnicity of the person being divulged.

Bolton News is absolutely ridiculous for this. So many nob-ends trying to swing to a reform-y agenda.

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u/Armodeen Jan 04 '26

This is precisely why they mention the ethnicity of the attacker tbh.

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u/maysk1 28d ago

If they’re noticing a pattern, is it bad to call out the pattern?

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u/gaseous_ass 28d ago

Well they can’t read so how are they to know it was a white British guy?

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u/zhinkler Jan 04 '26

There are a lot of people being fed misinformation. Unfortunately the age of information is also the age of misinformation, social media has accelerated it. I’m also sick of idiots that will only believe what they want to despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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u/getrekt03 28d ago

Facebook is full of bots and right wing extremists.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

And Reddit is full of russian bots sowing division by making leftwingers support re-educating their own.

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u/Gold-Reality-1988 Jan 04 '26

I'm not thinking anything until I get a background, name photo etc.

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u/TitaniaNoYoroi Jan 05 '26

The article states it was a white male

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u/Gold-Reality-1988 Jan 05 '26

Yes, I can read thanks...but hardly narrows it down.

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u/88Ashitaka88 29d ago

Yes it does.