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Police to get tough over trouble

1:48pm Thursday 21st August 2008

By Jim Jack »

Police are promising tough action on town centre violence after two men suffered injuries in separate incidents around a railway station.

Police are seeking witnesses to a disturbance in the Ilkley Station Plaza car park on Saturday night, in which a man was injured. And British Transport Police also appealing for information after a teenager was surrounded by a gang and beaten up in the station last month.

In the most recent incident, at around 11.30pm on Saturday, a 43-year-old man who tried to intervene in a disturbance at the Station Plaza car park was hurt.

Sergeant Darren Minton vowed that police would take action to stamp out disorder.

He said: “We will not tolerate disorder in the town. Offenders will be arrested.”

Sgt Minton said that there had been two arrests for public order offences in connection with the incident. However, he urged any witnesses, or anyone with any information on the incident, to call 0845 6060606 or 0800 555111.

Meanwhile, British Transport Police this week issued an appeal to an attack last month, in which an 18-year-old man was set upon in the station.

Police fear the gang which attacked the man, between 11pm and 11.20pm on Friday, July 18, may have struck their victim with a spanner and a bottle. Call British Transport Police on 0800 405040.

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