TWO PEOPLE have been charged in connection with an attempted murder and GBH investigation in Reading.
A 17-year-old boy from Reading, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with one count of attempted murder.
Kayden Williams, aged 18, of Don Close, Tilehurst, has been charged with one count of Section 20 grievous bodily harm without intent and assault by beating.
Williams and the 17-year-old boy have been released on court bail to appear at Reading Crown Court on 16 August.
The charges relate to an incident at 5.45pm on Thursday, August 4, when a teenage girl was assaulted in Coronation Square, Southcote.
Then, at around 6.10pm, a second victim, a man aged in his late teens, suffered serious injuries when he was struck by a van in Pierce’s Hill, Tilehurst.
Both victims remain in hospital at this time.
Two other men, aged 18, 20, both from Reading, who were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, have been released on conditional police bail until 1 September, along with a 38-year-old man, also from Reading, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
