Two men have been charged with attempted murder in connection with the stabbing of a 33-year-old man in Balfour Road, on Oxford's Blackbird Leys estate, in January.

Kevin Mwaura, 23, of Antrobus Road, Birmingham, and 25-year-old Michael Edwards, of Hollow Way, Cowley, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of stabbing Kirk Smith at on January 14. They were remanded in custody.