A second teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the wake of a stabbing in Blackbird Leys.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested on Saturday night, Thames Valley Police said. The youth has since been released on police bail.

The arrest – the second in as many days – followed a stabbing in Mercury Road, Blackbird Leys, on Thursday night.

A man in his 40s was left with serious injuries in the attack. He remains in a serious, but non-life threatening, condition in hospital.

Another boy, also 16, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on Friday. He was subsequently bailed by detectives.

A section 60 stop and search order, extended on Saturday afternoon by a senior police officer and enabling constables to search people without first having to have ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect they were carrying a weapon, came to an end earlier this afternoon. It has not been extended, police said.

On Saturday, Supt Emma Garside said of the order: “It is in place to ensure public safety, while also giving police extra power to search people who they think could be involved in violence, and to take weapons off the street.

“I understand that an order of this nature could cause concern, but whilst a Section 60 order may sound alarming, enhancing our stop and search powers provides us with another tactic to quickly identify and disrupt those carrying weapons.”

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