Pensioner dies in hospital after being stabbed in the neck in Hockwold as 26-year-old charged

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A 26 year old man has been charged with attempted murder after the pensioner was left with critical injuries and later died in hospital Credit: PA

A pensioner who was stabbed in the neck in a quiet village has died in hospital.

The unnamed man in his 80s was left with critical injuries after sustaining a knife wound to the neck in Hockwold, near Thetford, at around 9am on 29 February.

He died at West Suffolk Hospital on 7 March following a stay at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

Ashley Francis, 26, from King's Lynn, was charged with attempted murder on 1 March.

Francis appeared at Norwich Magistrates Court last weekend and is due before the Crown Court on 2 April.

Norfolk Police say officers are continuing to investigate and are liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service.

A Home Office post-mortem is now due to take place.

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