Teenagers charged after paramedics and woman assaulted

    Two teenagers have been charged after two paramedics and a woman were assaulted in Greater Manchester.

    Joshua Stokes and Brandon Collins, both 18-years-old and from Wythenshawe, have been taken into police custody.

    Shortly after 3am on Saturday 15 July, police received a report of a disturbance where a woman had been assaulted on Alderue Avenue in Benchill.

    Paramedics responding to the incident were also assaulted and a NWAS Rapid Response Vehicle was stolen from the scene before it was crashed and abandoned a short distance away on Greenwood Road, opposite the junction with Royalthorn Road.

    Stokes has been charged with section 18 assault by wounding, aggravated vehicle taking and driving with no insurance.

    Collins has been charged with aggravated vehicle taking, driving with no insurance, two counts of assault and a racially aggravated public order offence.

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