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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

Woman bottled and man suffers broken nose in taxi dispute on Gloucester Road

A woman suffered concussion after she was hit on the head with a bottle and a man suffered a broken nose when a group of men attacked them following a dispute over a taxi in Bristol.

The couple both required hospital treatment for what police described as serious injuries, and now detectives are appealing for help to find the group of violent yobs who carried out the attack.

The incident happened late last Saturday night. At around 1.20am in the early hours of the morning of Sunday, March 19, a 20-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man became involved in a dispute over a taxi near the junction of Zetland Road and Gloucester Road in Redland/Montpelier.

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The couple were assaulted by a group of men, with the woman suffering head injuries and concussion when she was hit over the head by a bottle. The man she was with suffered a broken nose in the violence. The group of thugs walked off towards the Arches and got into another taxi, which dropped them off in the Hampton Road area of Redland - a journey that would have been a 15-minute walk.

Avon & Somerset police are now appealing for help to identify the group of men, and are specifically asking for anyone with mobile phone video or dashcam footage if they were out and about that night.

"We’re appealing for information and witnesses following an incident in Gloucester Road, Bristol, in which two people suffered serious injuries. Did you see this incident? Can you help us identify the offenders? Do you have any relevant mobile phone or dash cam footage? If you can help, please call us on 101 and give the call handler the reference number 5223063917," a police spokesperson said.

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