Did you witness seafront brawl?

DETECTIVES investigating a stabbing which left a man critically ill in hospital are still keen to trace missing key witnesses to the incident.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Mar 2006, 13:21 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:21 BST

The 36-year-old Eastbourne victim was stabbed three times in the chest and back with a six inch-bladed kitchen knife (pictured) during a fight between a group of four or five men at Bexhill Marina at about 5.30pm on Christmas Eve.

The incident was filmed by the nearby CCTV camera. Detective Constable Tony Lockey of Rother CID says: "I know there were other people on the seafront that evening from the local CCTV and other witness accounts.

"I am very keen for them to come forward and speak to me."

The fight was the first in a sequence of events.

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The injured man staggered from Marina up Devonshire Road, where he was hit repeatedly with a set of nunchuckas - two wooden clubs linked by metal chain.

DC Lockey said: "One half of the nunchuckas was broken, such was the ferocity of the attack.

"He still bears the scars on his back.

DC Lockey said the fight, by now involving around 10 men, continued outside the Marabou Restaurant. Furniture from the forecourt was thrown through the restaurant window.

A second man, also in his thirties, received cuts and bruises in the fight.

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DC Lockey said men involved in the Bexhill incident are alleged to have then gone to Eastbourne where the windows of the Diamond Pizza restaurant in Susan's Road were smashed.

He said this week: "I am mainly interested in the initial fight on the seafront at Bexhill where the man was stabbed.

"We are interested in hearing from the people who were walking on the seafront at the time. You can see families walking along there on CCTV.

"It may be that they were holidaymakers down for Christmas but we would like to hear from them.

"The people involved in the stabbing all know each other.

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"They had all had business or personal dealings with each other before the Christmas event.

"There appears to have been a major falling-out among them ...

The stabbing victim remained on the critical list at the Conquest Hospital at Hastings for 24 hours.

He was released after three weeks in hospital but he will have long-term health implications.

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