Harwich Teen Charged With Police Officer Assault

27 October 2014, 08:35 | Updated: 27 October 2014, 08:37

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A teenager from Harwich has been charged with assaulting two police officers.

The officers were injured as they went to arrest a suspect on Station Road in Dovercourt on Friday afternoon in connection with an aggravated burglary earlier in the week.

A 17 year-old is due before magistrates in Colchester today and has aslo been charged with one count of obstructing a police officer.

He and an 18-year-old man, also from Harwich, have been bailed pending further enquiries until Monday, December 22, in relation to the aggravated burglary.

Another 34-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Thursday, October 23, but was taken to hospital for treatment for a suspected broken ankle, where he remains.