Police are appealing for witnesses after a 29-year-old Asian man was subjected to racist abuse as he walked through an underpass that connects Bradley Stoke with Stoke Gifford. It happened at about 7.30pm on Thursday 5th July in the Winterbourne Road underpass, between Huckley Way and Oxbarton. A group of about seven young people were in the underpass and one
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A man has been jailed for ten months for the attempted robbery of a couple in Oaktree Crescent, Bradley Stoke, in March. The 19-year-old from Bradley Stoke admitted the offence when he appeared before Bristol Crown Court on 19th June. He was identified after local people responded to an appeal for information issued by the police. He had approached a
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Local police say they are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in the Bradley Stoke area last weekend. The incident happened between 10.30pm and 10.45pm outside 55-57 Oaktree Crescent on Saturday (8th March) when a man approached a number of Asian people and was racially abusive and threatening before asking them for money. When they refused, he threw the
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Police are appealing for the public’s assistance following a racially aggravated assault in Bradley Stoke. It happened at around 11.15pm on Friday 1st November 2013. Two men were walking along Oaktree Crescent when they were subjected to racial abuse and were assaulted. They received bruising and their bike was damaged. The three offenders are described as white and aged between
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Two Bradley Stoke residents have featured in a series of articles published by the Bristol Evening Post to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the USA. Sara Jones was visiting New York en route to Atlanta on the day of the attacks. She was walking in Battery Park, just a few hundred metres away from the Twin
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