Teenager appears in court over two Colchester murders

Detectives investigating the deaths of James Attfield and Nahid Almanea have tonight charged a 16-year-old boy from Colchester with their murders - on the authority of the Crown Prosecution Service.

The youth has been remanded in custody to appear before Chelmsford Magistrates Court at 10am tomorrow..

He was arrested on the Salary Brook Trail, in Colchester, just after 11am on Tuesday, May 26, on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.

Following enquiries by detectives he was further arrested on suspicion of the murders of James and Nahid.

James Attfield was murdered in March last year. The 33-year-old, also known as Jim, was found on the Riverside Path in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday, March 29, with more than 100 stab wounds to his body.

Nahid Almanea, a student at the University of Essex, was murdered on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 on the Salary Brook Trail in Colchester as she walked from her student accommodation in nearby Woodrow Way to the university complex in Wivenhoe.

The 31-year-old is believed to have been attacked at around 10.40am and died as a result of stab wounds.

A 16 year old boy is tonight being questioned in connection with two murders in Colchester last year.

It's 14 months to the day that James Attfield was killed in Lower Castle Park.

Three months later student Nahid Almanea was stabbed on the Salary Brook Trail.

Click below to watch a report from ITV News Anglia's Serena Sandhu

Essex police have arrested a 16-year old boy from Colchester in connection with the murders of James Attfield and Nahid Almanea.

The teenager was arrested on the Salary Brook Trail in Colchester on May 26 on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.

Following enquiries he has now been arrested on suspicion of both murders and is in custody at Colchester Police station.

James Attfield, who was murdered in March 2014, was found with more than 100 stab wounds on the Riverside Path in Colchester.

Nahid Almanea was also stabbed in June 2014 on the Salary Brook Trail as she walked to her student accommodation nearby.