Police investigating the Raikes Road murder have released a 17-year-old Preston teenager on bail until 5 August.

A 16-year-old Preston boy appeared at Preston Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 11 July, charged with the murder of a Preston man who passed away after a stabbing last Friday.

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Police have bailed another 16-year-old boy from Preston until 3 September, with two girls, aged 15 and 16, both from Preston, bailed until 5 August.

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Police responded to a call around 6.25pm on Friday, 8 July, to Raikes Road, after a report of an assault, with emergency services attending the scene and finding a 27-year-old man with stab wounds to the chest.

He was treated by paramedics and taken to Royal Preston Hospital but sadly later died, and a post-mortem examination found stab wounds as the cause of death.

Police arrested a number of people on suspicion of murder.

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