Injury, cemetery may be linked
Bloodstains on a tombstone in the Barbadoes Street cemetery might be linked with the arrival of an injured man at Christchurch Hospital yesterday morning. The police are investigating the incident, but inquiries are being hampered because the man cannot remember what happened to him.
The man, whose name was not available last evening, arrived at the hospital with head injuries. It is believed that he underwent surgery to a badly damaged eye yesterday. Detectives are trying to determine whether the man was robbed.
Spectacles found at the cemetery and blood on a tombstone might be linked with the incident, said a police spokesman.
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