Police arrest second man on suspicion of murder after mid-morning attack on concourse

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A man has died after being stabbed on the concourse at Plymouth railway station.

The victim, a man in his 40s, who is believed to have known his attacker, was taken to Derriford hospital in Plymouth for treatment on Tuesday morning but died.

A 29-year-old man, who was treated in hospital for a hand injury, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Part of the station remained cordoned off on Tuesday afternoon.

DCI Paul Langley, of the British Transport Police (BTP), said: “This was an attack on a man in broad daylight at a busy station in Devon. We are now working to identify the victim and inform his family.

“At this time, it is believed the two men knew each other and had an argument at the station, which resulted in one of the men assaulting the other.”



He appealed for anyone who may have seen what happened to contact the police.

Officers from BTP were called to the station at 10am and attended alongside colleagues from Devon and Cornwall police and paramedics from the South Western ambulance service.

Ch Supt Dave Thorne told reporters at the scene: “All we know is they [the attacker and victim] have turned up here at the railway station earlier this morning. Some kind of dispute has taken place and then an attack has followed.”

A taxi driver, who declined to give his name, said the incident took place beside his cab.



“They were walking down from the footbridge, arguing, I was parked at the front here,” he told the Plymouth Herald. “They were going around my car and then the knife came out and he started stabbing him in the shoulder. There was blood on my car.”

He said police had taken a blood sample from his vehicle.



Extra officers would be deployed in the area in the coming days, Langley said. “Thankfully, assaults such as this are very rare and we are doing everything to establish what has happened.”