Stabbing horror in Midsomer Murders town
Boy, 15, held after ‘drug gang car chase’
Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed following a car chase in a market town.
Banknotes were seen scattered in the road by an upturned car where the victim, named locally as Joshua harling, 19, was knifed to death. A 15-year-old was led away in handcuffs by police shortly after the crash in Thame in Oxfordshire.
Two 19-year-olds, one from Buckinghamshire and the other from Oxfordshire, were arrested yesterday on suspicion of his murder.
Mr harling, who is from Thame and had recently left the wellregarded Lord Williams’s School in the town, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
A resident, who asked not to be named, said: ‘I think the fight was over a £20 bag of drugs, there was money scattered all over the road.’
Another said: ‘I heard the boy who died was being chased over a drugs dispute. There are rumours about county lines drugs gangs moving out here.’
Mr harling is understood to have lived with his mother in a small semi-detached house in Thame.
The town is often used to shoot scenes for the ITV detective series
‘Money scattered over the road’
Midsomer Murders. One local said: ‘This is not something you expect in Thame. A car chase and a stabbing is what you associate with the inner city.
‘The boy they arrested was in the second car that was following the one that turned over.’
Another said: ‘People are saying it is drug-related.’
Thames Valley Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Bosley said: ‘We are investigating this incident in which a 19-year-old man has sadly died. This is a fast moving inquiry, and detectives and specialist forensic and search teams are working hard to establish exactly what happened.
‘We have now made three arrests in connection with this investigation, two 19-year-old men, and a 15year-old boy have all been arrested on suspicion of murder, they remain in custody at this time.’
Chief Inspector Matthew Bullivant said: ‘I am aware that a video capturing some of the incident may be circulating online and I ask that you please refrain from sharing this on social media. Our officers and staff are out in your local neighbourhood, so please feel free to speak to them if you have any concerns.’