POLICE have charged a 25-year-old man in connection with an attempted robbery after a stabbing in a Rose Hill shop last night.

Officers stood guard at a cordon around the Premier Turna Supermarket in The Oval last night, following reports of a customer being stabbed in the arm. 

Police confirmed, Ricky Harris, of no fixed abode, was charged today with one count of attempted robbery, one count of Section 18 wounding with intent, one count of threatening a person with a blade in a public place and one count of racially aggravated public order. 

Hannah Jones, a spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: "The charges are in connection with an incident at the Turna supermarket in The Oval, Rose Hill at 4.45pm yesterday in which a shop worker was threatened and two men intervened, one of whom sustained a non life-threatening arm injury and the other was subjected to racial comments."

Harris was remanded in custody to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.

A member of staff at Rose Hill Newsagents next door told the Oxford Mail the incident happened just before 5pm.

He said: "Some guy went in there with a knife and went to the shopkeeper and demanded money from the till.

"The customers in the shop grabbed him and a customer got stabbed in the scuffle, then the police took him away."

South Central Ambulance Service spokesman David Gallagher said they were called at 4.51pm, but had to wait for police back-up before going into the shop.

He added that people in the shop had jumped in to try to "detain the offender".

Mr Gallagher continued: "We were called to reports of a male who had been stabbed in the arm. It looks like an attempted armed robbery. We had to wait for police to attend and went in with them."

Mr Gallagher said the victim's injuries were not thought to be life-threatening and he was taken to the John Radcliffe. 

A Rose Hill resident who was at the scene said: "I just went to the shop for beer and it was all cordoned off. 

"I heard that someone went into the shop with a knife. They tried to take it off him and he stabbed them. 

"There were two or three police there. One shop was cordoned off and the police were talking to the people in the other shop."