Man in hospital after being attacked while trying to break up fight in Islington
Published:
4:45 PM August 6, 2018
Updated:
8:13 PM October 15, 2020
Police at the scene. - Credit: Archant
A man is in hospital with serious injuries after being attacked while trying to break up a fight.
Police were called to the junction of Union Square and Bevan Street just before 6.45pm yesterday after reports of a fight.
Officers and medics arrived and took a 27-year-old man to hospital with head injuries. Scotland Yard said today his injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing.
Witnesses told officers t hat three men armed with weapons were fighting and the victim had tried to break it up but was then attacked.
One man has been arrested on suspicion of GBH.
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Police are still making enquiries into the incident.
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