A murder investigation has been launched after a man was found with fatal injuries inside a property in Shanklin last night, with 3 people arrested in connection with the incident.
Armed Police were deployed to St John’s Road in the town where the currently unnamed man was found inside a residential address with serious injuries.
Despite the efforts of paramedics and the crew of Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance, the casualty was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hampshire Constabulary say they were called at 22:11 to reports of an ‘altercation’ at the address – but it remains unclear what exactly prompted the heavy Armed Police response, as first reported by Island Echo.
A 29-year-old woman, a 52-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man from the Isle of Wight have all been arrested in connection with the incident – believed to be on suspicion of murder.
Island Echo understands that another person was rushed to hospital with stab wounds to the stomach.
Officers remain at the scene and enquiries to establish the circumstances of this incident are ongoing.
Forensic investigators from the mainland have arrived at St John’s Road this morning and have begun their examination of the crime scene.
UPDATE @ 08:13 – Detailed forensic examinations continue this morning – including on the doorstep of a neighbouring property.
Undertakers have now removed the body from what appears to be the ground floor of the address. A Home Office post mortem will now take place to establish the cause of death.
UPDATE @ 08:30 – St John’s Road has now re-opened to motorists and pedestrians but a cordon remains in place around the property at the centre of the murder probe.
Forensic teams have left the scene having gathered evidence to support the investigation.
More information is expected to be released by Police as the morning progresses.
UPDATE @ 15:49 – Police have confirmed that a man in his 50s has died and his death is being treated as murder.
Read more at https://www.islandecho.co.uk/man-in-his-50s-killed-and-another-man-hospitalised-after-shanklin-altercation/.
This is so awful. I moved here from London to get away from the constant news of stabbings. Its so sad that this is happening on our lovely island. It used to be so much safer here.
Yes vicky, I moved too the Island to escape violence myself. This is living proof that the grass is never greener on the other side. The world has gone to the dogs. Lack of respect fueled by alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately it’s out of control and won’t be getting better anytime soon .
YET ANOTHER MURDER ON THE ISLAND, this place is worse than Midsummer !! – This island is heading to the pits of the UK, high unemployment, major crime , drugs etc I am so pleased to say we are leaving the island, it has most certainly lost the appeal it used to have, the place used to be beautiful with beautiful people but now it is full of criminals and low class citizens and it is has become very tatty in the 10 years we have done here. Good bye and good riddance to this horrible island.
And good riddance to you
This place has gone downhill because it is now full of mainland rejects lol
Totally agree with you there. It’s not what it used to be sadly
I hope this is not the IOW Council taking these rejects? Apparently they get a big wad if money if they do. If they allow this type of person to come here, you can bet your last buck, they won’t be living anywhere near any of them, oh no!!!
My cousin bought a bungalow out of a new estate of 30 homes, all purchased by local people. Now she is the only resident who was island born and bred who lives on the estate. Likewise where I reside a similar situation.
It’s not the island it’s some of the people on it .
What ever posses a person to stab another human being? What is so bad that it makes a person plunge a knife into someone?
Must be total skanks, wasters who have had a bad upbringing and have to turn to violence, in this case murder.
In a frightening and panicked frenzy… because you had just been stabbed you retaliated???
Doesn’t mean your a skank, nor a waster, nor a bad upbringing, and perhaps the only way to stay alive was for you yourself to turn to violence in self defence in a moment of utter fear for your life?
If you saw a smart young woman get attacked from nowhere, and she somehow managed to turn the knife round whilst defending her life and unfortunately it was a single but fatal wound, would you call her a skank and a waster and say she had a bad upbringing??
How many more of these senseless murders before we get a decent Police Force, a strong judiciary and welfare teams to get on top of these incidents before they blow up? Stopping violence at the first signs, by locking up offenders early on, rather than the slap on the wrist almost every offender gets today, and making any assault a BIG issue for the victim, by way of proper compensation paid by the offender, and a suitable punishment MIGHT teach them that it isn’t worth it! Whatever is behind this awful incident, no one deserves such a horrendous end and my sympathies to the victims family.
Plenty more I suspect, Davimel, all because of the despicable underfunding of our public services by our pathetic Government. This cancer will not stop growing without serious input from a capable, electorate-focussed and decent national and local government. The ones we have currently seem to be run by self-centered, uncaring and incompetent fools led by a lying buffoon.
I hope you are reading this, Mr Seely, though I feel you may not be at all bothered! Very sad.
Decent Police force?? Rude much. Its people like you that call them first when you need them.
It all down to the Liberal far left MPs judges, and Liberal indoctrination from the mainstream media…that always make up excuses for the lowlife..
You do realize that the police don’t set the sentencing ? Infact even the judge has boundaries . You can’t blame crime on the police force , that’s on the low lives who commit them !
Never known so many murders on the Island as of late, what is up with the Human Race? There is enough suffering throughout the world without adding to the misery.
This is another shocking murder, what is wrong with people.
Getting tough on first offenders whatever the crime sends a message, and will deter some from progressing down the slippery slope of further offending. Those who are not deterred should be jailed next time round. If the jails are full then build some more, that would provide employment too. In the long run surely it would be cost effective, and victims lives would not be blighted by the actions of those who have no conscience.
Zero tolerance is the answer, and the public need to report every offence to the police and especially drug dealing activity,
The island will soon be called the. Isle of Wight powder drugs drugs and more drugs ! How about a stiffer sentence for these druggies
Wake up mate, the island has always been a drugs capital. The island was once the main smuggling destination. Crime on the island is nothing new.
I have a brilliant idea!! Let’s build thousands more houses without adding more schools, hospitals, police, dentists and doctors and get a fixed crossing across the Solent so we can welcome the north Island dross (good ones are fine) and watch the murder rate rocket. The “good old days” are rapidly reversing sadly.
Are all these offences are being commited by mainlanders who have moved over to OUR Island?
Not your island though is it , Silly man
WHAT BECAUSE THE ISLAND DOESN’T ALREADY HAVE ANY IDIOTS WHO DO/SELL DRUGS COMMIT CRIME ??? WAKE UP DONUT THERE’S ENOUGH WRONGENS BORN AND BRED HERE. WHY IS IT ALWAYS “MAINLANDERS”. SUCH STUPID THINKING SMH….
So I take it you know the offenders to know they are from the mainland! Stupid statements/questions/people like this is what holds the island back and is why it’s in the state it’s in. I think very few people from the real world would want to come here and commit crime, and I’m pretty sure they would not pop over to commit murder!
Alas this type of event has been happening since ooh forever, but due to modern technology and media ,we hear about it more …
Such an unfortunate situation but not uncommon alas …
Such a sad world….
Genuinely feel for our Emergency service’s who have to deal with such an awful incident !
Wow it ain’t no mainland person u don’t no
Translate that into English please?
When I came to the Island over 30 years ago I can remember the front page headlines of the County Press reading “video recorder stolen”. Back then this was a serious crime. If you did not have a permanent job, just a seasonal one, you had to return to the mainland when the summer season was over. Now we get the unemployed shipped here with no hope or wish to get a job. What a shame.
So many senseless comments, had anyone took the time to think this maybe a case fuelled from a domestic violence situation ? It maybe not but even still there are innocent people involved in this , not all are guilty . Does anyone actually know the facts of what’s happened here? No you don’t
Domestic or not, thrusting a nife into someone and killing them dead is a sick act, it could be drugs or anything else…What is wrong with you?…there is no excuse for murder that leaves the victims loved ones to carry the pain for most of their lives…What is wrong with you???
Knife …
And you know they just “thrust a knife” into the deceased do you? No excuse for murder- agreed but what if it’s not that black and white?! What if the dead man attacked one of them? And it was self defence? What about the family of the man in hospital? What about the two girls who may of just seen one of the most horrific scenes of their lives right before their eyes?
Luckily for you I assume you have never been in a domestic situation, because to many of us have. Most don’t lead to such tragic events thankfully.
So many people to so hastily presume the dead man was the only victim.
Obviously don’t know the facts behind this tragic event but isn’t it an uncanny coincidence that it occurred in a road that is off where there was another stabbing over the weekend … surely Shanklin isn’t that rife with knife crime, is it?
This uneducated assumption all “mainlanders” get shipped here is laughable, where would they go there is no housing! from an informed position, we dump more of our unwanted people on the mainland, as we don’t have the housing or other services to accommodate them. one day I’ll read the comments section and see something other that, island blindness.