Spate of Shore attacks
BY MICHELLE ROBINSON
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A 22-year-old has been arrested for an unprovoked attack on a North Shore couple.
The incident follows a number of similar attacks on the Shore.
In the most recent incident, the male victim and his partner had just left a church in Glenfield early evening last Wednesday when the offender asked the man for a cigarette.
On learning that the victim didn’t have any the offender punched the man in the head, North Shore police senior sergeant Rod Fraser says.
He says the man’s partner was also beaten in the head several times when she tried to intervene.
The offender and an associate ran off after several people went to help the victims who required medical treatment, Mr Fraser says.
He says police arrived shortly afterward and arrested the alleged offender at a nearby address.
The man, who is from west Auckland, faces charges of injuring with intent to injure, male assaults
female and obstruction.
Mr Fraser says such assaults are generally uncommon on the Shore but when they do occur police deal with them urgently.
He says he is pleased the attending police staff at the most recent incident found and arrested the offender quickly.
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